Autoconf asked me to tell you about this bug

[Richard Brooksby]

On a clean FreeBSD 5.3 machine, do:

  cd /usr/local/lang/python
  make install

and you will see, amongst other things:

> checking locale.h usability... yes
> checking locale.h presence... yes
> checking for locale.h... yes
> checking ncurses.h usability... no
> checking ncurses.h presence... yes
> configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: present but cannot be compiled
> configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
> configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's 
> result
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> checking for ncurses.h... yes
> checking poll.h usability... yes
> checking poll.h presence... yes
> checking for poll.h... yes
> checking pthread.h usability... yes
> checking pthread.h presence... yes
> checking for pthread.h... yes
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