Re: [Python-Dev] BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 is buggy and causes test_bsddb3 to hang

2007-09-10 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I have a change in my sandbox to explicitly avoid linking with 4.6.19 > but it seems like committing it would just pollute setup.py with vague > notions of what versions of a specific library are bad. I'd prefer to > just disallow use of libdb 4.6 completely in setup.py until oracle fixes > this

[Python-Dev] BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 is buggy and causes test_bsddb3 to hang

2007-09-09 Thread Gregory P. Smith
BerkeleyDB 4.6.19 is a buggy release, the DB_HASH access method databases can lockup the process. This is why several of the bleeding edge distro buildbots are timing out while running test_bsddb3. I've created a simple C test case and made sleepycat^Woracle aware of the problem. I have a change