Python & wxPython on Solaris 2.6

[Paul Boddie]

"Doug Farrell" <writeson at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<n4i87.1113$bl1.180691 at newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> I'm not sure where to go from here and I'm looking for some help. Can anyone
> direct me on how I might get Python and wxPython to work on the Solaris 2.6
> platform? I'm trying to evangelize <g> at the office to get people to use
> Python rather than Unix shell scripts for our scripting programming
> language.

I managed to get wxPython working on Solaris some time ago, although I
no longer use Solaris machines for development work, and I therefore
don't know how hard it is to build wxPython for such machines now. You
should take a look at the wxPython Web site, and get some advice from
the mailing lists:

  http://www.wxpython.org

As for the version of make you use, I found it easier to install GNU
make and just use that for most projects. It's not the ideal solution,
and I'll confess to using GNU-specific features in my own Makefiles,
but at least the documentation is readily available, if somewhat badly
structured.

Paul