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Hello,

@nnorwitz:

Unfortunately I cannot provide a patch, but can give some hints:

If you (or the developers) have a Solaris 10 box, they can
download the Sun Studio 11 which includes the Sun Compiler
for free from the URL:
<http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/cc/downloads/index.jsp>

Then you should be able to verify the problems yourself
(though I am using an older version of the compiler from the
times when it was commercial).

Regarding the _ctypes module problems:

The module contains a libffi which nowadays appears to be
part of the GNU GCC. This lib was never made to work with
anything else but GCC, as it seems. Even older versions do
not compile.

Therefore, if this module is not really necessary, it should
be removed or at least deactivated by the configuration if
not using GCC. It also seems, that other modules like
_struct appear to be depending on this, if I'm right.

Regarding the curses problem:

I can workaround this if changing the mvwgetnstr() to
mvwgetstr() with omitting the last parameter. However this
should be configured automatically.

Futhermore there was no linking of the correct library
(/usr/lib/libcurses.so). I had to activate the curses entry
in Modules/Setup manually and to call make two more times. 

Regarding GCC on Solaris: I tried with GCC but it failed on
Solaris 10 as well. I will open a new fault report for the
GCC problems.

@akuchling:

You say the curses bug should be fixed in 2.4 and 2.5. It
isn't. I tried 2.4.3 yesterday as well and ran into the very
same problem. Or do you mean it was changed more recently?