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weird i would not expect this to happen regardless of
berkeleydb version.

can you also do a 'ldd' on the _bsddb.so binary that your
python build produced?  presumably libdb42.so or something
similar should be in the output.

also, when to compile python does it print out a message
saying what version of the include files and libs it thinks
its compiling and linking with?

it looks like you're using rhel4 or centos4; i'll try
compiling 2.5rc1 on that myself when i get a chance.