[Python-Dev] problems building Python 2.1a1 on QNX 4.25

[Armin Steinhoff]

Hello Guido,

nice to see the first 2.1 version :)

At 16:52 26.01.01 -0500, you wrote:
> > [CC'ing to Armin Steinhoff, who maintains pyqnx on SourceForge.]
> >
> > I'm having trouble building Python 2.1a1 on QNX 4.25. Caveat: my C is very
> > rusty (long live Python!), I don't know my way around configure, and am not
> > familiar with Python's Makefile. Python 2.0 compiled fine (with a couple of
> > tweaks), but I'm getting caught by the new way of building things. Please
> > help if you can! Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Here's an excerpt of my efforts:
> >
> >     # cd /tmp/py
> >     # gunzip -c < python-2.1a1.tgz | tar -rf -
> >     # cd Python-2.1a1
> >     # ./configure 2>&1 | tee ../configure.1

I did a fast hack with the new 2.1 version:

CC=cc LINKCC=cc configure --without-gcc --shared=no --without-threads

(Hope '--shared=no' works ... QNX4 doesn't support dynamic loading)
Please replace all references to g++ by cc -> in the main Makefile and the 
Modules/Makefile.
In the Modules/Makefile set LDFLAGS=250K  ... the default stacksize of 32K 
seems to be too small.

> >     # make 2>&1 | tee ../make.1
> >     ...
> >     ./python //5/tmp/py/Python-2.1a1/setup.py build
> >     'import site' failed; use -v for traceback

'python -v' shows that the module 'distutils.util' isn't there ....  it 
seems to be not included in the source distribution.

'import site' failed; traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "//1/Python-2.1a1/Lib/site.py", line 85, in ?
from distutils.util import get_platform
ImportError: No module named distutils.util
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[ clip ..]

>This is probably in the realm of the distutils.  I have no idea how to
>teach it to build on QNX, sorry!

IMHO ... it is not a path problem.

In the moment there is no time left for me to go into these details. A 
clean port will happen in a few weeks. Please check out PyQNX for news 
regarding QNX4.25 and QNX6.0  (aka  QNX Neutrino).

Greetings

Armin Steinhoff

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