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libcurses.so & installing Python 2.4.3

Folks,

I am trying to build the binaries for Python 2.4.3 on a Sun E6900
running SPARC Solaris 9 and using gcc 3.4.2.

When the makefile tries to build the _curses extension it fails with a
symbol referencing error on "mvwgetnstr", which it appears should exist
in libcurses.so. For some reason it seems this function does not exist
in the version of libcurses.so shipped with Solaris 9.

Will I find it in some other library on Solaris or do I need to
download a different version of libcurses.so?

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks,
Damien.

Aug 24 '06 #1
1 2002
dmulcahy schrieb:
I am trying to build the binaries for Python 2.4.3 on a Sun E6900
running SPARC Solaris 9 and using gcc 3.4.2.

When the makefile tries to build the _curses extension it fails with a
symbol referencing error on "mvwgetnstr", which it appears should exist
in libcurses.so. For some reason it seems this function does not exist
in the version of libcurses.so shipped with Solaris 9.

Will I find it in some other library on Solaris or do I need to
download a different version of libcurses.so?
Neither, nor. You will need to port the curses module to Solaris 9
(if you really need it).

I believe in the subversion trunk of Python (and in Python 2.5),
this problem is fixed.

Regards,
Martin
Aug 28 '06 #2

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