From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 27 19:41:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A1737B406 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:41:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A4E21AF0178; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:41:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3B8B04E2.69C65553@urx.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:41:38 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Meyer Cc: Robin Becker , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Python-2.1.1 extension problem References: <15243.587.29088.614156@guru.mired.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Mike Meyer wrote: > > Robin Becker types: > > Whilst trying to recompile an extension with freeBSD 4.2 + Python-2.1.1 > > I'm getting the following error. > > It would be nice if we new what the extension was. > > > /usr/local/include/python2.1/unicodeobject.h:91: wchar.h: No such file > > or directory > > > > This extension compiled OK with Python-2.1. > > So must I upgrade my OS or is this a buglet of some kind? > > Well it doesn' wasn't a wchar.h in 4.2-RELEASE. Or 4.3-RELEASE, for > that matter. However, Python's config should notice that it's missing > and build appropriately. > > > This is a bit stranger than I thought. On one system running freebsd- > > 4.1.1-STABLE I have to build my own Python-2.1.1 as it's a colo machine. > > On that system I can build the extension fine. Certainly doesn't seem to > > have a wchar.h though. > > > > On the problem system freebsd-4.2-STABLE with the recently upgraded > > binary packaged Python-2.1.1 I am unable to build the package. > > There's the answer. The binary package of Python-2.1.1 was probably > built on a system that had a wchar.h. > > You should be able to build Python-2.1.1 from the port and use that. You have to build it from the ports or you can't use the latest koffice. I also built a package (make package instead of make install) that I installed on 4 other computers. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message