3 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/python/apt_pkgmodule.cc b/python/apt_pkgmodule.cc
index 7704aa01..1a991a48 100644
--- a/python/apt_pkgmodule.cc
+++ b/python/apt_pkgmodule.cc
@@ -537,8 +537,10 @@ static PyMethodDef methods[] =
     "Translate the given string. This is much faster than Python's version\n"
     "and only does translations after setlocale() has been called."},
 
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
    // Tag File
    {"rewrite_section",RewriteSection,METH_VARARGS,doc_RewriteSection},
+#endif
 
    // Locking
    {"get_lock",GetLock,METH_VARARGS,doc_GetLock},
@@ -623,7 +625,9 @@ static PyMethodDef methods[] =
 
    {"ParseSection",ParseSection,METH_VARARGS,doc_ParseSection},
    {"ParseTagFile",ParseTagFile,METH_VARARGS,doc_ParseTagFile},
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
    {"RewriteSection",RewriteSection,METH_VARARGS,doc_RewriteSection},
+#endif
 
    {"GetLock",GetLock,METH_VARARGS,doc_GetLock},
    {"PkgSystemLock",PkgSystemLock,METH_VARARGS,doc_PkgSystemLock},
diff --git a/python/apt_pkgmodule.h b/python/apt_pkgmodule.h
index 85c34130..1eb0e2f1 100644
--- a/python/apt_pkgmodule.h
+++ b/python/apt_pkgmodule.h
@@ -45,7 +45,9 @@ extern PyTypeObject PyTagSection_Type;
 extern PyTypeObject PyTagFile_Type;
 extern char *doc_ParseSection;
 extern char *doc_ParseTagFile;
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
 extern char *doc_RewriteSection;
+#endif
 PyObject *ParseSection(PyObject *self,PyObject *Args);
 PyObject *ParseTagFile(PyObject *self,PyObject *Args);
 PyObject *RewriteSection(PyObject *self,PyObject *Args);
diff --git a/python/tag.cc b/python/tag.cc
index 6ae439f5..46fb8f34 100644
--- a/python/tag.cc
+++ b/python/tag.cc
@@ -517,6 +517,7 @@ PyObject *ParseTagFile(PyObject *self,PyObject *Args) {
 }
 #endif
 									/*}}}*/
+#ifdef HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
 // RewriteSection - Rewrite a section..					/*{{{*/
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 /* An interesting future extension would be to add a user settable
@@ -586,6 +587,7 @@ PyObject *RewriteSection(PyObject *self,PyObject *Args)
    return HandleErrors(ResObj);
 }
 									/*}}}*/
+#endif // HAVE_OPEN_MEMSTREAM
 
 // Method table for the Tag Section object
 static PyMethodDef TagSecMethods[] =