I'm having no success building the curses module on Solaris 8 (yes, I know
it's ancient - advancing the state-of-the-art is not yet an option) for
Python 2.4. Sun provides an apparently ancient version of curses in
/usr/lib, so I downloaded and installed ncurses 5.5, both using default
settings and using --with-shared. When the curses module is linked against
libcurses.so I get some strange error about acs32map being undefined (which
appears to live in a couple termcap-ish files in /usr/lib). When the curses
module is linked against libncurses.a I get bazillions of linker errors like
this:
Text relocation remains referenced
against symbol offset in file
table.0 0x41
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
hls_palette 0x2dc
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
cga_palette 0x2e3
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
hls_palette 0x5e0
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
cga_palette 0x5e7
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
<unknown> 0xc9e
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
<unknown> 0xcb7
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_color.o)
<unknown> 0x18
/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o)
The build step and output from distutils are:
$ python ../setup.py build_ext
--include-dirs=/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/include
--rpath=/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib
--library-dirs=/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib
running build_ext
INFO: Can't locate readline library
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
building '_curses' extension
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC
-I. -I/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/./Include
-I/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/include -I/usr/local/include
-I/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/include
-I/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/include/python2.4 -c
/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/Modules/_cursesmodule.c -o
build/temp.solaris-2.8-i86pc-2.4/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/Modules/_cursesmodule.o
/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/Modules/_cursesmodule.c: In
function `PyCursesWindow_GetStr':
/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/Modules/_cursesmodule.c:822:
warning: implicit declaration of function `mvwgetnstr'
gcc -shared
build/temp.solaris-2.8-i86pc-2.4/home/ink/skipm/src/python-svn/release24-maint/Modules/_cursesmodule.o
-L/opt/app/g++lib6/python-2.4/lib -L/usr/local/lib
-L/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib -Wl,-R/opt/app/nonc++/ncurses-5.5/lib
-lncurses -o build/lib.solaris-2.8-i86pc-2.4/_curses.so
Any ideas what's wrong and what I need to do to correct the problem?
Thx,
Skip
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