[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
John> Was libncurses.a compiled with -fpic (or -fPIC, if necessary)?
John> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-March/013510.html
When built shared the source was compiled with -fPIC. -fPIC is not used
when not built shared. I forced that in a non-shared build. It still ga
[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
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 a
