[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package/python

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

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 09:57:41AM +0100, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "ulf" == ulf  <ulf@uclibc.org> writes:
> 
>  ulf> Author: ulf
>  ulf> Date: 2009-01-15 06:28:05 +0000 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009)
>  ulf> New Revision: 24852
> 
>  ulf> Log:
>  ulf> Always create shared python library, if python is created, needed by multiple packages
> 
>  ulf> +$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).so: $(TARGET_DIR)/$(PYTHON_TARGET_BINARY)
>  ulf> +		cp -dpr $(PYTHON_DIR)/libpython*.so.* $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib
>  ulf> +		(\
>  ulf> +		cd $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib ; \
>  ulf> +		rm -f libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).so ; \
>  ulf> +		ln -s `basename  \`ls libpython*.so.*\`` libpython$(PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR).so \
>  ulf> +		)
> 
> What are you trying to do here?

I'd like to know why libpython is needed, or at least why it's not a
separate configuration option. 

It's not needed to run python, only to embed it in other applications -
the main python binary (/usr/bin/python2.x) doesn't even link to it.

I use Python extensively in my buildroot-based embedded system, and I
don't need libpython bloating my image.

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>