config errors on Freebsd and python 2.3

[David Bear]

I need python 2.3. I have freebsd 4.10-releng. when configuring python I
received the following:

../configure --prefix=/home/webenv > config-results
configure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take
precedence
configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the python lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: in the future, the compiler will take
precedence
configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to the python lists. ##
configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------------- ##

I don't plan on using curses -- so I'd like to ignore this. But, I'm just
wondering if there is an 'easy' fix...

 

[rainbow.cougar]

I need python 2.3. I have freebsd 4.10-releng. when configuring python I
received the following:

./configure --prefix=/home/webenv > config-results
...

I don't plan on using curses -- so I'd like to ignore this. But, I'm just
wondering if there is an 'easy' fix...

I've tried to fix it, still happens on Python 2.4.2 on FreeBSD6.0.

Don't sweat it ,

Curtis

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

I don't plan on using curses -- so I'd like to ignore this. But, I'm just
wondering if there is an 'easy' fix...

Not really, no. It's safe to ignore.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Safeer Tabassum]

why you are not installing it from ports?

Not really, no. It's safe to ignore.

Regards,
Martin

 

[rainbow.cougar]

why you are not installing it from ports?

Python as installed from ports doesn't support Tkinter.

Curtis

 

[rainbow.cougar]

why you are not installing it from ports?

Python as installed from ports doesn't support Tkinter.

Curtis

 

[rainbow.cougar]

why you are not installing it from ports?

The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter. That's why I
started building python from source. And since I'm building from source
I can be more up-to-date then the ports distribution, and include pil,
pmw, etc in the build.

Curtis

 

[rainbow.cougar]

why you are not installing it from ports?

The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter. That's why I
started building python from source. And since I'm building from source
I can be more up-to-date then the ports distribution, and include pil,
pmw, etc in the build.

Curtis

 

[rainbow.cougar]

why you are not installing it from ports?

The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter. That's why I
started building python from source. And since I'm building from source
I can be more up-to-date then the ports distribution, and include pil,
pmw, etc in the build.

Curtis

 

[Mike Meyer]

The port distribution doesn't build to support Tkinter.

Looks like they changed that recently - because it used to build it by
default. Tkinter is now installed by x11-toolkits/py-tkinter.

That's why I started building python from source. And since I'm
building from source I can be more up-to-date then the ports
distribution, and include pil, pmw, etc in the build.

The current ports Python is 2.4.2. Do you have a newer version of
Python? And pil/pmw and a lot of other things are already in the ports
tree as separate ports.

<mike