dmulcahy schrieb: > I am trying to build the binaries for Python 2.4.3 on a Sun E6900 > running SPARC Solaris 9 and using gcc 3.4.2. > > When the makefile tries to build the _curses extension it fails with a > symbol referencing error on "mvwgetnstr", which it appears should exist > in libcurses.so. For some reason it seems this function does not exist > in the version of libcurses.so shipped with Solaris 9. > > Will I find it in some other library on Solaris or do I need to > download a different version of libcurses.so?
Neither, nor. You will need to port the curses module to Solaris 9 (if you really need it). I believe in the subversion trunk of Python (and in Python 2.5), this problem is fixed. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list