Re: [MiNT] Python modules

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:16 +0100, Miro Kropacek wrote:
>  
>         If the project isn't very complicated, writing your own
>         Makefiles
>         (using GNU Make wildcard, pattern replacement and suffix
>         rules)
>         for it might be faster.  Then it will compile faster too. :-)
> The trouble is it is quite complicated :)
> 
> But: success! I not only managed to compile python static but I also
> managed to cross compile it. And best part: I can't take credit for
> any of of it, embedded guys rule ;-)
> 
> If someone interested, I can publish Python 2.6 with the most common
> modules, CMake (wasn't that trivial to compile either) and SCons as
> classic .tar.bz2 packages for /usr/local. Btw, that CMake was quite
> nice test case for g++, it heavily uses templates and stuff, I needed
> to increase stack for several hundreds of KB. But for both Python and
> CMake all tests passed OK!

Cool. But Gentoo uses python exclusively for it's package management.

http://gentoo.atariforge.net/files/

has all my files including my current static python build.

I do have a current python modular build with the new dld code though
that's not quite ready yet.

Alan.