Re: [MiNT] Python modules

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
this is good to know also, how long before dld is useful?

BTW is that gentoo on m68k?

Paul