[Pythonmac-SIG] 2.2 compile problem

[Nathan Heagy]

This seems to be a bug in the assumptions in setup.py for OS X. Please
correct me if I'm wrong, but line 461, "# OSX has an old Berkeley curses,
not good enough for the _curses module." hints that perhaps the
possibility that OS X may have been upgraded to gnu ncurses is not
considered. This would then be a bug. For example, this is exactly what I
have done.

I am still no closer to locating what is telling make to build the curses
module. And help to this is greatly appreciated. It seems ridiculous that
no one on this list knows where this is being done.

Nathan



On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Nathan Heagy wrote:

> I'm getting the following error when trying to compile the latest beta of
> Python 2.2 on OS X 10.0:
>
> dyld: ./python.exe multiple definitions of symbol _COLS
> /Users/nathan/Documents/Downloads/Python-2.2b2/build/lib.darwin-1.3.3-Power
> Macintosh-2.2/readline.so definition of _COLS
> /Users/nathan/Documents/Downloads/Python-2.2b2/build/lib.darwin-1.3.3-Power
> Macintosh-2.2/_curses.so definition of _COLS
>
> An acceptable solution for me is to not build curses support at all - I
> don't need it in python. However it isn't enabled in Module.Setup so I
> think one of the Makefiles has snuck behind my back to build it without my
> consent.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Nathan
>
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