[patch] faq: prebuilt python for os/x

Vince McIntyre <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.cvs2svn.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Michael Haggerty wrote:

>
>> It may also be of interest to FAQ readers to know that neither the
>> prebuilt python 2.6 from python.org nor from activestate can help with
>> this issue - you really do have to build from source.
>
> Feel free to put that info in a patch and I will be happy to commit it, too.

please see my attempt at this, attached.

Cheers
Vince

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--- faq.html	(revision 4847)
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@@ -611,7 +611,15 @@
 10.5.5 does not include any other dbm libraries other than the
 standard dbm.  In order for cvs2svn to work, we need to install the
 gdbm library, in addition to a new version of python that enables the
-python gdbm module. Here is the procedure for a successful
+python gdbm module.</p>
+
+<p>The precompiled versions of python for OS/X available from
+python.org or activestate.com (currently version 2.6.2)
+do not have gdbm support turned on.
+To check for gdbm support, check for the library module
+(<code>libgdmmodule.so</code>) within the python installation.</p>
+
+<p>Here is the procedure for a successful
 installation of cvs2svn and all supporting libs:</p>
 
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