Python module under db 4.3.29

Question

According to the documentation for the python module, version 4.3 of db is sufficient for building the module. However, when I try python setup.py build I get the following error:
dbxml_python_wrap.cpp: In function ‘void init_dbxml()’:
dbxml_python_wrap.cpp:36842: error: ‘DB_READ_UNCOMMITTED’ was not declared in this scope
dbxml_python_wrap.cpp:36848: error: ‘DB_READ_COMMITTED’ was not declared in this scope
I see that the two missing declarations are in the db.h from 4.5.20 included with dbxml, but they aren't in the db.h I have installed here.
What am I to do? I'm working on packaging this for a Linux distribution, and unfortunately they're pretty insistent of using installed libraries instead of packaged ones.

Answer 1

Now everything is compiling successfully (with some warnings about -R being an unknown option) but I get the following error when trying to import the module. Any idea where I should start tracking this down?
Python 2.4.3 (#1, Feb 20 2007, 15:36:44)
[GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)] on linux2
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import bsddb3
import dbxmlTraceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/dbxml.py", line 5, in ?
import _dbxml
ImportError: /usr/lib/libdbxml-2.3.so: undefined symbol: _ZTI11DbException