embedded python?
Peter Hansen
peter at engcorp.com
Tue Jun 29 14:14:07 EDT 2004
Alexander May wrote:
> Peter Hansen recklessly declaimed(*):
>>I doubt you'll need to do much "porting". Unless the Linices you
>>are considering are quite unusual, they ought to look a lot like any
>>other Linux, and Python may well work largely unchanged.
>
> from http://www.vanille.de/projects/python.spy (from Christopher T King's
> post)
>
> "You won't find many Python distributions for arm-linux, because Python is
> pretty finnicky when it comes to cross-compiling. The build process of
> Python compiles a core part of it (the parser generator pgen) and tries to
> execute that later in the build process. This - of course - doesn't work for
> cross compiling. My patches to the Python build scripts are available @
> sourceforge and are likely to be included into the main Python tree."
>
> Thoughts?
Yeah, my Linux experience is limited to x86 systems, and my definition
of "unusual" therefore includes anything outside of that. Sorry. :-(
-Peter
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