4 If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like this
5 while running configure:
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
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.
20 The build error that occurs while making may look something like this:
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"
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:
28 OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@)
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
35 If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem.
36 Please submit a bug report here:
38 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470