The final piece of this change...
Strip down Setup.config.in and Setup.dist to the minimal sets required
to get a working Python; setup.py will handle the rest
builds during which he forgot to uncomment crucial library lines in
Setup, walks into Guido's East End nightclub with a tactical nuclear
weapon on his shoulder. Said nuclear weapon is promptly deployed
exactly where it will do the most good, right in the middle of
configure.in.
With this patch, the set of libraries autoconfigured in is extended to
include ndbm, gdbm, and crypt. This essentially eliminates any need to
tweak Setup for a normal Linux build.
"'E was a fair man. Cruel, but fair."
of dbmmodule dynamically by default (otherwise it can pull in
dependencies with libdb that croak pybsddb3). This change moves the
Setup line for dbmmodule to Setup.config.in.
xreadlines inserted themselves inbetween the two) and clarify that the
normal socket module should be commented out. (Someone also suggested the
latter on c.l.py some time ago, I forget who, sorry.)
Andrew M. Kuchling
Eric S. Raymond
Barry Warsaw
Thomas Wouters
Guido van Rossum
Fred Drake