libcurses.so & installing Python 2.4.3

["Martin v. Löwis"]

dmulcahy schrieb:
> I am trying to build the binaries for Python 2.4.3 on a Sun E6900
> running SPARC Solaris 9 and using gcc 3.4.2.
> 
> When the makefile tries to build the _curses extension it fails with a
> symbol referencing error on "mvwgetnstr", which it appears should exist
> in libcurses.so.  For some reason it seems this function does not exist
> in the version of libcurses.so shipped with Solaris 9.
> 
> Will I find it in some other library on Solaris or do I need to
> download a different version of libcurses.so?

Neither, nor. You will need to port the curses module to Solaris 9
(if you really need it).

I believe in the subversion trunk of Python (and in Python 2.5),
this problem is fixed.

Regards,
Martin