From 592305011d47f3a4a5e35bc14a2d978fd09df8d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:51:46 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap, submitted by Klaus-Juergen Wolf. --- README | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index f468d23791b..f0013429091 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ Linux: On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run -lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or comment out the crypt module in the same file. +FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or + similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in + the correct order with the defaults. Remove "-ltermcap" from + the readline entry in Setup, and use as curses entry: "curses + cursesmodule.c -lmytinfo -lncurses -ltermcap" - "mytinfo" (so + called on FreeBSD) should be the name of the auxiliary library + required on your platform. Normally, it would be linked + automatically, but not necessarily in the correct order. + DEC Unix: When enabling threads, use --with-dec-threads, not --with-thread. When using GCC, it is possible to get an internal compiler error if optimization is used. This was