2005-01-08If you are have a problem building on OpenBSD and see output like thiswhile running configure:checking curses.h presence... yesconfigure: WARNING: curses.h: present but cannot be compiledconfigure: WARNING: curses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?configure: WARNING: curses.h: see the Autoconf documentationconfigure: WARNING: curses.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"configure: WARNING: curses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's resultconfigure: WARNING: curses.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedencethere is likely a problem that will prevent building python. If you see the messages above and are able to completely build python,please tell python-dev@python.org indicating your version of OpenBSDand any other relevant system configuration.The build error that occurs while making may look something like this: /usr/include/sys/event.h:53: error: syntax error before "u_int" /usr/include/sys/event.h:55: error: syntax error before "u_short"To fix this problem, you will probably need update Python's configurescript to disable certain options. Search for a line that looks like: OpenBSD/2.* | OpenBSD/3.@<:@012345678@:>@)If your version is not in that list, e.g., 3.9, add the versionnumber. In this case, you would just need to add a 9 after the 8.If you modify configure.in, you will need to regenerate configurewith autoconf.If your version is already in the list, this is not a known problem.Please submit a bug report here: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470