errors building python 2.7.3

[David Robinow]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Alexey Luchko <luch at ank-sia.com> wrote:
> On 28.03.2012 18:42, David Robinow wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Alexey Luchko<luch at ank-sia.com>  wrote:
>>> I've tried to build Python 2.7.3rc2 on cygwin and got the following
>>> errors:
>>>
>>> $ CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw/ CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncursesw/
>>> ./configure
>>   I haven't tried 2.7.3 yet, so I'll describe my experience with 2.7.2
>>   I use /usr/include/ncurses   rather than /usr/include/ncursesw
>>   I don't remember what the difference is but ncurses seems to work.
>
> I've tried ncurses too.  It does not matter.
 Have you included the patch to Include/py_curses.h  ?
If you don't know what that is, download the cygwin src package for
Python-2.6 and look at the patches. Not all of them are still
necessary for 2.7 but some are.