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     2 2005-01-08

     3 

     4 If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like this

     5 while running configure:

     6 

     7 checking curses.h presence... yes

     8 configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled

     9 configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?

    10 configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation

    11 configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"

    12 configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result

    13 configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence

    14 

    15 there is likely a problem that will prevent building python.  

    16 If you see the messages above and are able to completely build python,

    17 please tell python-dev@python.org indicating your version of OpenBSD

    18 and any other relevant system configuration.

    19 

    20 The build error that occurs while making may look something like this:

    21 

    22     /usr/include/sys/event.h:53: error: syntax error before "u_int"

    23     /usr/include/sys/event.h:55: error: syntax error before "u_short"

    24 

    25 To fix this problem, you will probably need update Python's configure

    26 script to disable certain options.  Search for a line that looks like:

    27 

    28     OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@)

    29 

    30 If your version is not in that list, e.g., 3.9, add the version

    31 number.  In this case, you would just need to add a 9 after the 8.

    32 If you modify configure.in, you will need to regenerate configure

    33 with autoconf.

    34 

    35 If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem.

    36 Please submit a bug report here:

    37 

    38     http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470