Compiling Python 3.2 on Cygwin fails

[Daniel Rentz]

Hello,

I've downloaded the 3.2 source tarball from python.org and tried to 
compile Python from scratch in a Cygwin 1.7.7 environment. Configure 
works as expected. Make fails with the following message:

make: *** No rule to make target `libpython3.2m.dll.a', needed by 
`python.exe'.  Stop.

There is a suspicious line in Makefile.pre.in, line 509:

$(DLLLIBRARY) libpython$(VERSION).dll.a: $(LIBRARY_OBJS)

Changing that line to

$(DLLLIBRARY) $(LDLIBRARY): $(LIBRARY_OBJS)

lets make finish, but gives a bunch of other errors and warnings, such as:

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/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.3.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
cannot find -lpython3.2
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules 
were not found:
_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:
_bisect            _codecs_cn         _codecs_hk
_codecs_iso2022    _codecs_jp         _codecs_kr
_codecs_tw         _csv               _ctypes
_ctypes_test       _curses            _curses_panel
_datetime          _elementtree       _gdbm
_hashlib           _heapq             _json
_lsprof            _multibytecodec    _multiprocessing
_pickle            _posixsubprocess   _random
_socket            _sqlite3           _ssl
_struct            _testcapi          array
atexit             audioop            binascii
bz2                cmath              crypt
fcntl              grp                math
mmap               parser             pyexpat
readline           resource           select
syslog             termios            time
unicodedata        zlib

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Is there something obvious I am missing here?


Regards
Daniel