Thanks for the suggestion, Jeff- but I noticed -lcrypt appears during the build process. I added it manually anyway but that led to errors concerning OpenSSL so will follow Miko's advice and send to pkgsrc-users.
Apologies for the mismail, I'm sure I could come up with an excuse at a push. (: John On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 05:37:56PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 5:06 PM John H <j...@sdf.org> wrote: > > > > Setting up pkgsrc-2021Q1 on Solaris 10 x86 for an experiment. Going quite > > well so far, but still using an old gcc version (3.4.3) to build a newer > > one within the pkgsrc ecosystem, however, seems I need Python > > first. whenever I attempt to build any version of python 3.x I am dropped > > out with this: > > > > ld: fatal: library -lcrypt: not found > > > > ...which leads to > > > > ERROR: The following files are in the PLIST but not in > > /usr/pkgsrc/lang/python39/work/.destdir/usr/pkg: > > ERROR: > > /usr/pkgsrc/lang/python39/work/.destdir/usr/pkg/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload/_crypt.so > > > > Hoping there's something simple I need to install first like a crypt > > library, any ideas appreciated! > > I believe you need to add -lcrypt to LIBS during configure. (It is not > a problem on Linux because glibc provides the functions). > > It's been a while since I built Python on NetBSD, so I may be mistaken. > > Jeff -- j...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
