On Fri, 2011-07-08 at 05:09 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 08:45 -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > > On Monday, July 04, 2011 11:40:21 PM Jon Masters wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 03:40 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > > I'm interested in collectively helping to solve the python bootstrap, > > > > since it might take some effort, and it doesn't need to all be your > > > > burden to solve. Therefore, can you let us know what you're doing so > > > > far, what your suggested tack is, and so on. We can figure out who > > > > should help build packages, or we can help with patches, etc. > > > > > > Dennis says he has a minimal build. Hopefully, he can reply to document > > > what (if anything) beyond minimal config he did to get it to build. If > > > we can get this build asap, we can build more packages later today, > > > including the deps for python so that we can rebuild it fully, and then > > > have mock, and yum, and koji before Wednesday ;) > > > > > > Jon. > > what i did was > > rpm -ivh python-src.rpm > > rpmbuild -bp path/to/python.spec > > cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD/Python-2.7.1/ > > ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-dtrace --with-system-expat --with-system-ffi > > --enable-shared > > > > i think had to remove some references to dtrace in the Makefile and i commented > > out in Modules/Setup the bits for tkinter > > i then did a make -j2 > > > > > > you will need to make sure you have the expat and libffi rpms installed > > The resultant python binary generates a library warning (note also the > hard-coded lib64 locations being used by python anyway): > > Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> > Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] > Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jul 8 2011, 08:17:56) > [GCC 4.6.0 20110428 (Red Hat 4.6.0-6)] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import sys; sys.path > ['', '/usr/lib64/python27.zip', '/usr/lib64/python2.7', > '/usr/lib64/python2.7/plat-linux2', '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk', > '/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib64/lib-dynload', > '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages', > '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages'] > > It seems to work for minimal math functions, etc. though and the > libraries do seem to be there. I know Yum uses the rpm native library to > do various things, and that currently generates this: > > bash-4.2# yum > Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> > Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] > There was a problem importing one of the Python modules > required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: > > No module named rpm > > However, I feel I just made a relatively trivial mistake, and it's late, > so perhaps you'll help me straighten this out so we can get it into > place and have people building python stuff. I'll commit my bits onto > armv7hl-jcm, but not to armv7hl. Perhaps you can help fix? I did the prep stage on an x86_64 host, but configure ran on the correct target so it shouldn't have mattered. Sleeping now, but input welcome. Jon. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
