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Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap, 

submitted by Klaus-Juergen Wolf.
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Guido van Rossum 1999-06-21 20:51:46 +00:00
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@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ Linux: On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run
-lcrypt option. Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or
comment out the crypt module in the same file.
FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
the correct order with the defaults. Remove "-ltermcap" from
the readline entry in Setup, and use as curses entry: "curses
cursesmodule.c -lmytinfo -lncurses -ltermcap" - "mytinfo" (so
called on FreeBSD) should be the name of the auxiliary library
required on your platform. Normally, it would be linked
automatically, but not necessarily in the correct order.
DEC Unix: When enabling threads, use --with-dec-threads, not
--with-thread. When using GCC, it is possible to get an
internal compiler error if optimization is used. This was