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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jan 6 18:21:44 EST 2004

Cameron Laird wrote: > ? You might have to go through some of this slowly for me. > I'm stumbling over the "It will still continue trying to > build the other extension modules" part. I did "make; make > install", and no one ever tried to compile Modules/tkinter.c > (for example); what am I missing?

[MvL]

After setup.py fails to build one extension module, it should continue with the next one. Are you sure tkinter.sl was not build???

setup.py skips some modules if the required .h files cannot be found. If you never installed Tcl/Tk, it will skip _tkinter.c silently.

For curses, if it can find ncurses.h, it will assume that it can build the curses module. It could be that the ncurses.h found doesn't actually work with _cursesmodule.c; or it could be that the C compiler's search finds a different header file than what setup.py finds (a native C compiler typically has more platform knowledge than distutils).

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