[Python-Dev] build problems large and small on FreeBSD

[Barry Scott]

O.k. will do, hopefully this weekend.

		BArry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: guido@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com
> [mailto:guido@cj20424-a.reston1.va.home.com]On Behalf Of Guido van
> Rossum
> Sent: 17 October 2000 15:06
> To: Barry Scott
> Cc: jeremy@beopen.com; python-dev@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] build problems large and small on FreeBSD
> 
> 
> > The FreeBSD ports collection had to be updated to support
> > importing C++ extensions with Python 1.5.2. (You get things
> > like cout not defined when importing).
> > 
> > Are the nessesary compile/link changes in 2.0?
> 
> Tell you what: I have no idea. :-(
> 
> I believe there were some changes to the Makefile and/or config file
> to support C++, but I don't know if this works on FreeBSD.  I'm not a
> big C++ user myself, so I rarely try this...
> 
> Can you try it?  If it doesn't work out of the box, let's sit down
> together and figure out a fix.
> 
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> 
>