From f866bac73c6a6f6a15ef2217cb5ac9f3160a9378 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@mad-scientist.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:21:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Disable use of BerkeleyDB 4.6.x to see what the odd platform
 buildbots think.  In particular, neal norwitz has traced an Ubuntu sparc64
 crash to the Lib/test/bsddb/test_basics.py test when opening a db with
 DB_THREAD.

---
 setup.py | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8b850c5e8da..51ef16b55c9 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -681,7 +681,10 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         # a release.  Most open source OSes come with one or more
         # versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
 
-        max_db_ver = (4, 6)
+        max_db_ver = (4, 5)  # XXX(gregory.p.smith): 4.6 "works" but seems to
+                             # have issues on many platforms.  I've temporarily
+                             # disabled 4.6 to see what the odd platform
+                             # buildbots say.
         min_db_ver = (3, 3)
         db_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?