[Buildroot] buildroot - python problem

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>]

On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:31:26AM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> tor 2008-05-08 klockan 10:27 +1000 skrev Hamish Moffatt:
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:07:18PM +0200, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> > > The python.mk looks pretty unclean to me.
> > > Should not the host python be built in the toolchain directory,
> > > and the result moved to STAGING_DIR?
> > > Then it could be easily be used for other stuff as well.
> > 
> > I'm using the python package here and never saw the problem reported in
> > this thread. Your suggestion of installing properly into $STAGING_DIR
> > seems reasonable though.
> > 
> > I am planning to update the package for Python 2.5 soon so I will fix
> > that up at the same time. Next week hopefully.
> > 
> > Changing versions might break some people's code, so it may be necessary
> > to support multiple versions and allow the user to choose. Do you other
> > Python users have any comments on this?
> 
> Here is a start, not tested yet...

Thanks. I think that for a host-python in $STAGING_DIR to be useful for
more than just building target-python, you need to build/install more
than just the python and pgen binaries. It needs to install the standard
library (some of which has to be compiled).

I don't think "make install" installs the host pgen (required to 
cross-compile python) though so we can't just replace the copy of the
host python/pgen binaries with "make install".

Hamish
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