python 2.3.2 and openbsd 3.4

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Yuri Pimenov wrote:

> Im trying to build python 2.3.2 on openbsd 3.4.
> First of all, ./configure complains several times about unability to
> test sys/select.h, sys/lock.h files:

{...}

> Any ideas how to fix this?

Figure out what is broken in, or missing from, your system's headers.

Then figure out how to work around the broken/missing bits.  Insert
appropriate #defines in relevant files and teach configure.in how to
activate them.

In particular, I recall there being some fiddling required to get certain
BSD APIs properly activated (BSD_SOURCE??).

> Btw, python 2.2.x builds without a single complain.

Lots changed in the configure machinery between 2.2.x and 2.3.x.

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