1 2 2005-01-08 3 4 If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like this 5 while running configure: 6 7 checking curses.h presence... yes 8 configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled 9 configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? 10 configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation 11 configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" 12 configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result 13 configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence 14 15 there is likely a problem that will prevent building python. 16 If you see the messages above and are able to completely build python, 17 please tell python-dev (a] python.org indicating your version of OpenBSD 18 and any other relevant system configuration. 19 20 The build error that occurs while making may look something like this: 21 22 /usr/include/sys/event.h:53: error: syntax error before "u_int" 23 /usr/include/sys/event.h:55: error: syntax error before "u_short" 24 25 To fix this problem, you will probably need update Python's configure 26 script to disable certain options. Search for a line that looks like: 27 28 OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@) 29 30 If your version is not in that list, e.g., 3.9, add the version 31 number. In this case, you would just need to add a 9 after the 8. 32 If you modify configure.ac, you will need to regenerate configure 33 with autoconf. 34 35 If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem. 36 Please submit a bug report here: 37 38 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470 39
