build a static python executable on linux?

[Alexandre Gillet]

Thanks for the hints.
But I think it will too much work to do now and not enough time. So I 
will probably build my interperter with a older version of glibc so I am 
sure it will run on all the linux platform and not only the one using 
glibc 2.3

Thanks
Alex

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>     Alex> I am able to compile a static interpreter (using -static
>     Alex> -static-libgcc) but I can not build the extensions correctly.
> 
> You effectively need to transport yourself back in time before distutils
> existed, and modify Modules/Setup (or more correctly, Modules/Setup.local)
> appropriately to define the build commands for all the extension modules you
> want to include in your interpreter.  It's a little tedious the first time
> (it will probably take a few iterations to get everything correct), but once
> you get the hang of it, it's easy to do.  Use the compile and link commands
> output by distutils to give yourself a head start on -I, -L and -l flags to
> include in your definitions.  Many of the commented out definitions are
> probably also close.
> 
> If you identify some modules with no commented out build definitions in the
> Setup file, please file a bug report on SourceForge.
> 
> Skip
> 
> 

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