The _curses extension doesn't build on Solaris 8
(64-bit) due to the following problem:

building '_curses' extension
cc -O -xarch=v9 -xcode=pic32 -DNDEBUG -O -I.
-I/w/fac.01/cs/eggert/seasnet/Python-2.5a1/./Include
-I/u/cs/fac/eggert/seasnet/prefix/include -I./Include
-I. -I/w/fac.01/cs/eggert/seasnet/Python-2.5a1/Include
-I/w/fac.01/cs/eggert/seasnet/Python-2.5a1 -c
/w/fac.01/cs/eggert/seasnet/Python-2.5a1/Modules/_cursesmodule.c
-o build/temp.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.5/_cursesmodule.o
"/w/fac.01/cs/eggert/seasnet/Python-2.5a1/Modules/_cursesmodule.c",
line 822: warning: implicit function declaration:
mvwgetnstr
cc -O -xarch=v9 -G
build/temp.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.5/_cursesmodule.o
-L/u/cs/fac/eggert/seasnet/prefix/lib -lcurses
-ltermcap -o build/lib.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.5/_curses.so
*** WARNING: renaming "_curses" since importing it
failed: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file
build/lib.solaris-2.8-sun4u-2.5/_curses.so: symbol
mvwgetnstr: referenced symbol not found
building '_curses_panel' extension

This problem occurs with both 2.4.3 and 2.5a1.

I'll attach the obvious patch.

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Thanks!  I've tried the patch on Linux, including the
STRICT_SYSV_CURSES code, and applied it to the 2.4 and 2.5
branches.