solaris 8 [sparc]
gcc 3.2.2
python 2.2.2

I am having trouble with curses support.  ncurses 5.3
is installed in the standard solaris manner

** Configuration summary for NCURSES 5.3 20021012:

      bin directory: /usr/local/bin
      lib directory: /usr/local/lib
  include directory: /usr/local/include/ncurses
      man directory: /usr/local/man
 terminfo directory: /usr/local/share/terminfo

** Include-directory is not in a standard location

is not picked up by ./configure.
 
checking for ncurses.h... no

Python builds fine but

./python ./Lib/test/test_curses.py -u curses
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./Lib/test/test_curses.py", line 11, in ?
    import curses, sys, tempfile
  File
"/usr/local/src/python/Python-2.Lib/curses/__init__.py",
line 15, in ?
    from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

I'm doing something wrong but I'm nor sure what.  Do I
need to have ncurses overwrite the default Solaris
curses? If so will anything break?


many thanks

iain morrison

iain.morrison@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

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Closing this bug since it appears to be an exact duplicate
of 700780 which already has comments.  Iain, can you provide
any more info to the questions asked in the other bug report?