| |
| 2005-01-08 |
| |
| If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like this |
| while running configure: |
| |
| checking curses.h presence... yes |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result |
| configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence |
| |
| there is likely a problem that will prevent building python. |
| If you see the messages above and are able to completely build python, |
| please tell python-dev@python.org indicating your version of OpenBSD |
| and any other relevant system configuration. |
| |
| The build error that occurs while making may look something like this: |
| |
| /usr/include/sys/event.h:53: error: syntax error before "u_int" |
| /usr/include/sys/event.h:55: error: syntax error before "u_short" |
| |
| To fix this problem, you will probably need update Python's configure |
| script to disable certain options. Search for a line that looks like: |
| |
| OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@) |
| |
| If your version is not in that list, e.g., 3.9, add the version |
| number. In this case, you would just need to add a 9 after the 8. |
| If you modify configure.ac, you will need to regenerate configure |
| with autoconf. |
| |
| If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem. |
| Please submit a bug report here: |
| |
| http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470 |
