Need pixie dust for building Python 2.4 curses module on Solaris 8

[Thomas Dickey]

skip at pobox.com wrote:

> I'm having no success building the curses module on Solaris 8 (yes, I know
> it's ancient - advancing the state-of-the-art is not yet an option) for
> Python 2.4.  Sun provides an apparently ancient version of curses in
> /usr/lib, so I downloaded and installed ncurses 5.5, both using default
> settings and using --with-shared.  When the curses module is linked against

for Solaris, you also should add --enable-rpath

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