Martin v. Löwis wrote: > You need to use GNU make for that to work. The build regenerates the > makefile, but Sun make doesn't recognize the change. There was a message > telling you so.
Thanks Martin, you are totally correct. Using gmake avoids the problem. > Also, your original complaint wasn't that readline isn't considered, > but that setup.py didn't find it even though configure did. A patch > fixing that has a higher chance of being accepted than a patch adding > /opt/sfw to the standard search path (which is really a decision > Sun should take, not the Python maintainers - in absence of a Sun > change, it's then the local administrator who decides). Fair point. If time permits I'll look into constructing such a patch. Cheers, Chris -- http://chrismiles.info/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list