Martin Panter added the comment: Thanks, this looks like a decent start. I’m not that familiar with cross-compiling Python, but here are a couple questions:
$(cd /path/to/source && pwd)/configure Why do you use $(pwd) here? I have mainly seen relative paths used (my own experiments, and reports from others), so I don’t think you need to force an absolute path. The instructions further up already mention “../configure” from a subdirectory. --prefix=$(cd ../install && pwd) Won’t that embed the path of the install directory in e.g. sys.prefix or something? Can’t you use “DESTDIR=../install” instead? I remember there are a bunch of extra things you have to manually configure to cross-compile. See e.g. revision 12a56a349af2 which asks for /dev/ptmx and /dev/ptc settings in a CONFIG_SITE file (although I have had success just adding them to the “configure” command line). Perhaps we could add something like ''' configure --host=[. . .] \ ac_cv_file__dev_ptmx=no \ ac_cv_file__dev_ptc=no . . . If the target Python could use /dev/ptmx or /dev/ptc to implement os.openpty(), set the corresponding argument to "yes". ''' I suspect some people cross compile 2.7, so it may be worth applying something like this to that branch. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28542> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com