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remove mention of old ctypes version
author Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
date Sat, 23 May 2009 20:59:09 +0000
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2 2005-01-08
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4 If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like this
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5 while running configure:
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7 checking curses.h presence... yes
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8 configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled
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9 configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
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10 configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation
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11 configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
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12 configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
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13 configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence
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15 there is likely a problem that will prevent building python.
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16 If you see the messages above and are able to completely build python,
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17 please tell python-dev@python.org indicating your version of OpenBSD
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18 and any other relevant system configuration.
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20 The build error that occurs while making may look something like this:
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22 /usr/include/sys/event.h:53: error: syntax error before "u_int"
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23 /usr/include/sys/event.h:55: error: syntax error before "u_short"
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25 To fix this problem, you will probably need update Python's configure
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26 script to disable certain options. Search for a line that looks like:
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28 OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@)
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30 If your version is not in that list, e.g., 3.9, add the version
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31 number. In this case, you would just need to add a 9 after the 8.
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32 If you modify configure.in, you will need to regenerate configure
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33 with autoconf.
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35 If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem.
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36 Please submit a bug report here:
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38 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470