From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 28 16:10:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB28A37B405 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 95944 invoked by uid 100); 28 Aug 2001 23:10:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15244.9462.240685.390211@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 18:10:46 -0500 To: Robin Becker Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Python-2.1.1 extension problem In-Reply-To: <106917331@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robin Becker types: > In article <15243.587.29088.614156@guru.mired.org>, Mike Meyer > writes > >Robin Becker types: > >It would be nice if we new what the extension was. > that really doesn't matter It makes it very hard to try and recreate the problem, should that be required to solve the problem. > >There's the answer. The binary package of Python-2.1.1 was probably > >built on a system that had a wchar.h. > So the released binary packages don't correspond to usable systems. Not > good practice. Actually, the released binary packages correspond to the system they were built on, which is usually pretty usable - after all, it's used to build those packages from the ports tree. Trying to move a binary built on one version of FreeBSD to another is bad practice, though it usually works. You're better off building from ports on your own system, thought that can also break. It would be nice if the packages could all determine these things dynamically, but I suspect most application authors would just tell you to recompile for your version of the OS. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message