Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap,

submitted by Klaus-Juergen Wolf.

diff --git a/README b/README
index f468d23791bbd350f060254b51ec52cf31b9a20e..f0013429091d355e8141d5121db2779ac7d85ed4 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -209,6 +209,15 @@ Linux:  On Linux version 1.x, once you've built Python, use it to run
        -lcrypt option.  Uncomment this flag in Modules/Setup, or
        comment out the crypt module in the same file.
 
+FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or
+       similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in
+       the correct order with the defaults.  Remove "-ltermcap" from
+       the readline entry in Setup, and use as curses entry: "curses
+       cursesmodule.c -lmytinfo -lncurses -ltermcap" - "mytinfo" (so
+       called on FreeBSD) should be the name of the auxiliary library
+       required on your platform.  Normally, it would be linked
+       automatically, but not necessarily in the correct order.
+
 DEC Unix: When enabling threads, use --with-dec-threads, not
        --with-thread.  When using GCC, it is possible to get an
        internal compiler error if optimization is used.  This was