| 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 |