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| author | Paul Kehrer <paul.l.kehrer@gmail.com> | 2017-09-12 10:26:33 +0800 |
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| committer | Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> | 2017-09-11 22:26:33 -0400 |
| commit | c7ecb4568444bec5a1db02e9db1ad386a7afc88d (patch) | |
| tree | 0f827acb8e0d3da46ac13c74b4a8d1f57cbd4492 /docs/faq.rst | |
| parent | 363f5b099ba6e9e551d20e39242bd657bd0703f1 (diff) | |
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add a faq note about having a compiler that is too old (#3902)
* add a faq note about having a compiler that is too old
Also add a bit of text explaining what to do on OpenBSD 6.1 and earlier
since that is the most likely place this will occur.
* I always forget it spell checks titles
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diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index adf03d5c..7133f0c5 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ Installing ``cryptography`` fails with ``ImportError: No module named setuptools Your ``cffi`` package is out of date. ``pip install -U cffi`` to update it. +error: ``-Werror=sign-conversion``: No option ``-Wsign-conversion`` during installation +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The compiler you are using is too old and not supported by ``cryptography``. +Please upgrade to a more recent version. If you are running OpenBSD 6.1 or +earlier the default compiler is extremely old. Use ``pkg_add`` to install a +newer ``gcc`` and then install ``cryptography`` using +``CC=/path/to/newer/gcc pip install cryptography``. + Installing cryptography with OpenSSL 0.9.8 or 1.0.0 fails --------------------------------------------------------- |