allow --with-dbmliborder to specify that no dbm modules will be built #6491

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3749054b86..faf2c33386 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1000,14 +1000,15 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         else:
             missing.append('bsddb185')
 
+        dbm_order = ['gdbm']
         # The standard Unix dbm module:
         if platform not in ['cygwin']:
             config_args = [arg.strip("'")
                            for arg in sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS").split()]
-            dbm_args = [arg.split('=')[-1] for arg in config_args
+            dbm_args = [arg for arg in config_args
                         if arg.startswith('--with-dbmliborder=')]
             if dbm_args:
-                dbm_order = dbm_args[-1].split(":")
+                dbm_order = [arg.split('=')[-1] for arg in dbm_args][-1].split(":")
             else:
                 dbm_order = "ndbm:gdbm:bdb".split(":")
             dbmext = None
@@ -1071,7 +1072,8 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
                 missing.append('dbm')
 
         # Anthony Baxter's gdbm module.  GNU dbm(3) will require -lgdbm:
-        if (self.compiler_obj.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'gdbm')):
+        if ('gdbm' in dbm_order and
+            self.compiler_obj.find_library_file(lib_dirs, 'gdbm')):
             exts.append( Extension('gdbm', ['gdbmmodule.c'],
                                    libraries = ['gdbm'] ) )
         else: