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From: Patrick <kpa_info@yahoo.fr>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] Add python3 config directory simlink
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:07:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <511B65D6.9070003@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130213103319.678c7948@skate>

On 02/13/2013 10:33 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Dear Patrick Gerber,
>
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:20:34 +0100, Patrick Gerber wrote:
>> Add a simlink to alias the python3.3/config-3.3m directory to python3.3/config
>> in the staging directory
>
> This description doesn't match what the code is doing. The code creates
> a symbolic link in $(HOST_DIR), not $(STAGING_DIR).
>
> Also, this commit log doesn't explain *why* this is needed in the first
> place. The commit log only explains what the patch is doing (which we
> can easily find out by reading the code), but lacks an explanation of
> the underlying reasons.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas
>

When using host python to install an external module, the setup tools 
look for a python3.3/config/pyconfig.h file. With the python3 package 
from buildroot this directory is called config-3.3m. This is why we need 
to alias config to config-3.3m.

Patrick

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-13 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-13  9:20 [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/5] Python 3, simple, external package support Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 1/5] Python menu reorganization Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 2/5] Add python3 config directory simlink Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:33   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-13 10:07     ` Patrick [this message]
2013-02-13 10:13       ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-02-13 10:20         ` Patrick
2013-02-13  9:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 3/5] Add common declaration to ease the support of both version Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 4/5] python-bottle: Convert package to be used with python2 or python3 Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:20 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 5/5] python-serial: " Patrick Gerber
2013-02-13  9:40 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH v3 0/5] Python 3, simple, external package support Maxime Ripard
2013-02-13 10:20   ` Patrick
2013-02-13 12:33     ` Patrick

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