[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > 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) [...] > The build step and output from distutils are: [...] > Any ideas what's wrong and what I need to do to correct the problem?
Was libncurses.a compiled with -fpic (or -fPIC, if necessary)? http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013510.html John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
