AIX build and (potentially missing modules

[Zachary Ware]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Michael Felt <michael at felt.demon.nl> wrote:
> I have been packaging python for AIX - and wanting minimal dependancies I
> have been ignoring the final messages from make.
>
> Personally, I do not see any real harm in the missing *audio "bits", but how
> terrible are the other missing "bits" for normal python programs?
>
> Many thanks for feedback!
>
> ...
> building dbm using ndbm
> INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
>
> Python build finished, but the necessary bits to build these modules were
> not found:
> _bsddb             _curses_panel      _sqlite3
> _tkinter           bsddb185           dl
> gdbm               imageop            linuxaudiodev
> ossaudiodev        readline           spwd
> sunaudiodev

None of the above are absolutely necessary, unless you need them
(obviously :)).  Not having readline does make using the REPL rather
annoying, though.

-- 
Zach