[Python-Dev] Directions for reproducing the coredump (original) (raw)

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 07:34:19 -0400

Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>:

One thing i ran into as a result of trying to run it under the debugger, though: turning on cursesmodule was slightly nontrivial. There's no cursesmodule.c; it's cursesmodule.c instead; but Modules/Setup says "#curses cursesmodule.c". Taking out the "#" wasn't sufficient; i had to edit and insert the underscores by hand to get curses to work.

Your Setup is out of date.

But this reminds me. There's way too much hand-hacking in the Setup mechanism. It wouldn't be hard to enhance the Setup format to support #if/#endif so that config.c generation could take advantage of configure tests. That way, Setup could have constructs in it like this:

#if defined(CURSES) #if defined(linux) _curses _cursesmodule.c -lncurses #else _curses _cursesmodule.c -lcurses -ltermcap #endif #endif

I'm willing to do and test this.

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