Hello,

as promised here is the second report because of
problems with building Python 2.5b2 on Solaris 10
(Sparc). I have been using the GCC this time.

These are the problems (for full logs please see
attachments):

building '_ctypes' extension
gcc -shared
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules
/_ctypes/_ctypes.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/
Modules/_ctypes/callbacks.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Pyth
on-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostk
amp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/stgdict.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/ho
me/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/cfield.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-
2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/malloc_closure.o
build/temp.solari
s-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/prep_cif.
o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/l
ibffi/src/sparc/ffi.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5
b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home
/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v9.o
-o build/lib.solaris
-2.10-sun4us-2.5/_ctypes.so
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeedcca5 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeedccab is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeedccaf is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeedccb3 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeeeae06 is non-aligned
ld: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_ctypes/libffi/src/sparc/v8.o:
symbol <unknow
n>: offset 0xfeeecaf6 is non-aligned
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

building '_curses' extension
gcc -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I/
home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/./Include -I./Include -I.
-I/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2
/Include -I/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2 -c
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_cur
sesmodule.c -o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modu
les/_cursesmodule.o
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_cursesmodule.c: In
function `PyCursesWindow_
GetStr':
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_cursesmodule.c:822:
warning: implicit declar
ation of function `mvwgetnstr'
gcc -shared
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules
/_cursesmodule.o -lcurses -ltermcap -o
build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/_curses
.so
*** WARNING: renaming "_curses" since importing it
failed: ld.so.1: python: fata
l: relocation error: file
build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/_curses.so: symbol m
vwgetnstr: referenced symbol not found
building '_curses_panel' extension
gcc -fPIC -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I/
home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/./Include -I./Include -I.
-I/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2
/Include -I/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2 -c
/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules/_cur
ses_panel.c -o
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modu
les/_curses_panel.o
gcc -shared
build/temp.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5/home/ostkamp/Python-2.5b2/Modules
/_curses_panel.o -lpanel -lcurses -ltermcap -o
build/lib.solaris-2.10-sun4us-2.5
/_curses_panel.so
*** WARNING: renaming "_curses_panel" since importing
it failed: No module named
 _curses
running build_scripts

Regards,

Guido