Subject: Re: Telling Python to build on Solaris...
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Mark Davies <mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/13/2002 11:30:25
	From:  Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
	Date:  Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:27:30 +0100

> additionally, I created an empty
> touch PLIST.solaris

> after this, installation proceeded, though warning me about this:

> /usr/local/pkg/lib/python2p2/plat-solaris5/IN.py: No such file or directory
> /usr/local/pkg/lib/python2p2/plat-solaris5/IN.pyc: No such file or directory
> /usr/local/pkg/lib/python2p2/plat-solaris5/IN.pyo: No such file or directory
> /usr/local/pkg/lib/python2p2/plat-solaris5/regen: No such file or directory

> Hm, what does it want to tell me? Who's our resident snake tamer?

Not sure why you want 22-pth rather than 22 on Solaris but it would need the 
same change that was made to the python22 package:

add:

.if ${OPSYS} == "SunOS"
LOWER_OPSYS=    sunos
.endif

to the Makefile and add an appropriate PLIST.sunos (probably the same as the 
one in python22)

cheers
mark