/Misc/README.OpenBSD
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- 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.in, 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