Thanks to those who offered suggestions for this. It appears that building Python 2.4.3 on Solaris 10 with readline (SFWrline package) support is a little long-winded but possible, using the following steps:
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.4.3 --enable-shared $ vi Modules/Setup.local --- add one line: --- readline readline.c -I/opt/sfw/include -L/opt/sfw/lib -lreadline -ltermcap --------------------- $ make ### will fail with ld error: ### Undefined first referenced symbol in file initreadline ./libpython2.4.so ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to python collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `python' ### however, just running make again ends up building fine ... ### $ make $ make install # might need root access (sudo/su) I hope this process can be improved, and if I have time I'll look at why make fails half way but works fine when kicked off a second time. I'd like to get /opt/sfw/ added to the standard lib/include path for Solaris (10 at least) as this is where Sun's open-source packages get installed. Is this just a matter of raising a ticket? Cheers, Chris Chris Miles wrote: > On a standard Solaris 10 installation with Sun-supplied open-source > packages installed (like SFWrline for readline libs) I cannot seem to > force Python configure/setup.py to build with readline support. -- http://chrismiles.info/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
