[Python-Dev] HP-UX clean-up (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Jan 6 16🔞13 EST 2004

Cameron Laird wrote:

C. curses: I find this hairy.

Is there a clean way to build without curses?

Why do you want one? If it fails to build, it fails to build. It will still continue trying to build the other extension modules.

The real problem here is the old decision to use distutils for building exceptions - in the Modules/Setup approach, you had to edit the file to determine which extension modules to build.

Of course, the same can apply to setup.py: Just delete the lines mentioning curses, and it will stop building the curses extensions.

I'm confident though that one can manage to adjust the curses code to build on HP-UX, once you have figured out that there are multiple (three ?!?) curses implementations on the system, and that you should select the "right" one.

Regards, Martin

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