Fail pyton build. What to do

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "edadk" == edadk  <e.d.andersen at mosek.com> writes:

    edadk> Hi, I am build python 2.1.1 on Solaris/Intel 8 and get the
    edadk> error meassage below. [I do not need the audio stuff at
    edadk> all. Can I shut it off for instace.]

    edadk> What can I do?

I haven't built python on that platform before, but my guess is that
 just turning off one feature that you don't want won't work.  If one
 thing is broken, it's often the case that something else is as well.

In this case it may simply be that you need to find where
sun/audioio.h is on your system and explicitly set it in your include
path.

If you have the GNU findutils installed, you can do

locate audioio.h

If not,  try searching for it with find 

find /usr -name audioio.h
find /opt -name audioio.h

If you find it on your system, you can inform python of it's
whereabouts with

./configure --includedir=/the/path/to/dir/that/contains_sun

If the dir is, for example, /opt/include/sun/audioio.h, you would do:

./configure --includedir=/opt/include

Warning, I just tried this to test it and contrary to my expectations,
/opt/include was not included with a -I flag in my test make.  I do
not know if this is a problem with the 2.1.3 configure script or my
misunderstanding of how the --includedir flag works.  You can always
use the brute force, hand edit the Makefile approach after configure
to manually add the -I/opt/include flag to the CFLAGS line, if
necessary.

John Hunter