Help ctypes on arm linux not compile

[Samuel M. Smith]

Sorry, thats a typo. Its python 2.5.1. as the error messages indicate.

On 30 Oct 2007, at 02:55 , Thomas Heller wrote:

> Samuel M. Smith schrieb:
>> I have built python 1.5.1 from source for an embedded ARM9 debian
>> linux Sarge distribution but
>> ctypes doesn't build.  Anybody have any idea what the problem is? Do
>> I have to have the libffi package
>> installed.
>> See my errors below.
>
> ctypes won't work with Python 1.5 because it uses new style  
> classes, introduced in Python 2.2.
> It uses other, newer features additionally, so it requires Python  
> 2.3 at least.
>
> Then, the included libffi package doesn't support ARM, you need a  
> newer libffi
> version.
>
> I think that the current Python 2.5 sources, from SVN, should work.
>
> Thomas
>
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