Compiling Python 3.2 on Cygwin fails

[Aly Tawfik]

On Jun 20, 12:44 pm, sewpafly <sewpa... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was able to a little further by changing 2 lines in Makefile.pre.in.
>
> On line 170, changed:
>     DLLLIBRARY= @DLLLIBRARY@
> to:
>     DLLLIBRARY= libpython$(VERSION).dll
>
> On line 509 it had:
>     $(DLLLIBRARY) libpython$(VERSION).dll.a: $(LIBRARY_OBJS)
>
> which I changed to:
>     $(DLLLIBRARY) libpython$(LDVERSION).dll.a: $(LIBRARY_OBJS)
>
> Compile finishes with:
> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules
> were not found:
> _gdbm              _sqlite3           _tkinter
> nis                ossaudiodev        spwd
> To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
> the module's name.
>
> Failed to build these modules:
> _curses            _curses_panel
>
> But 'make test' returns many errors.
>
> I'm thinking I'll try Python 3.1 instead.



Yes! I am facing the same problem. I, too, will try to install Python
3.1.4 instead. Did it work for you?