Index: setup.py
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--- setup.py	(revision 74010)
+++ setup.py	(working copy)
@@ -999,14 +999,15 @@ 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
@@ -1070,7 +1071,7 @@ 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: