Stackless Python

How to build Stackless Python on Debian

• Install the required dependencies in order to build Stackless Python.

# apt-get install libdb4.6-dev libssl-dev libbz2-dev libgdbm-dev libreadline5-dev tk-dev libsqlite3-dev libncurses-dev

• Apply the following patch to avoid conflicts with some old Unix modules

--- Python-2.6-orig/setup.py	2008-09-30 02:15:45.000000000 +0200
+++ Python-2.6/setup.py	2008-11-04 17:01:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@
         # the more recent berkeleydb's db.h file first in the include path
         # when attempting to compile and it will fail.
         f = "/usr/include/db.h"
-        if os.path.exists(f) and not db_incs:
+        if False and os.path.exists(f) and not db_incs:
             data = open(f).read()
             m = re.search(r"#s*define\s+HASHVERSION\s+2\s*", data)
             if m is not None:
@@ -1004,7 +1004,8 @@
             else:
                 missing.append('bsddb185')
         else:
-            missing.append('bsddb185')
+			pass
+#             missing.append('bsddb185')
 
         # The standard Unix dbm module:
         if platform not in ['cygwin']:
@@ -1324,7 +1325,8 @@
             # SunOS specific modules
             exts.append( Extension('sunaudiodev', ['sunaudiodev.c']) )
         else:
-            missing.append('sunaudiodev')
+			pass
+#             missing.append('sunaudiodev')
 
         if platform == 'darwin' and ("--disable-toolbox-glue" not in
                 sysconfig.get_config_var("CONFIG_ARGS")):