Will try that. Meanwhile I went ahead and used cx_freeze and that seems to work OK.
Thanks for your help Rami and Marc-Andre. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:57:17 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian > <giris...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I checked and ls /usr/lib64/python2.4/config/ returns >> config.c config.c.in install-sh libpython2.4.a Makefile makesetup >> python.o Setup Setup.config Setup.local >> >> so I am guessing the python-devel installation went off OK, from what you >> say. >> >> I looked at the freeze.py code and I see your point. But for tweaking, >> I would need to know what modules should get included from lib64 >> instead of lib and hardcode them .... >> Maybe tinkering around with the makefile which is produced by freeze >> is a better way to go? >> >> But since I need to freeze this python code by today, can you suggest >> any other tool to do this? >> > > I believe /usr/lib64 on a 64-bit RHEL will contain everything you need ; can > you try just changing the directory freeze.py looks at to 'lib64', and see > if the freeze works? > >> >> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>> >>> Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote: >>>> >>>> Hey Marc-Andre, >>>> Ummm - I have installed python-devel.x86_64 and checked that the >>>> /usr/lib64/python2.4/ is populated - anything else I can/shuld do to >>>> check/ensure the the devel rpm is installed? >>> >>> If you have the config/ sub-dir in there, things should be >>> fine. >>> >>> However, it's possible that you need to tweek the freeze.py >>> script a little, since RedHat chose to split the Python >>> installation on x64 in two parts and they may have missed >>> patching freeze.py as well: >>> >>> The platform independent parts are in /usr/lib, whereas the >>> platform dependent parts are in /usr/lib64. >>> >>> Python normally doesn't support this. It only has a >>> prefix and an exec_prefix, but those only allow to do >>> things like prefix=/usr and exec_prefix=/usr64, not >>> changing the lib/ part in /usr/lib/. >>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Rami Chowdhury wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:39 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian >>>>>> <giris...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello, >>>>>>> I have been using freeze.py on 32 bit linux distributions without a >>>>>>> problem. But recently I tried to do the same on RHEL5 x86_64 and ran >>>>>>> into some issues. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 1) When I ran the script, I got >>>>>>> Error: needed directory /usr/lib/python2.4/config not found >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't know anything about freeze.py but on 64-bit Red Hat distros >>>>>> (RHEL, Fedora, etc) it should be /usr/lib64/python2.4/config :-) >>>>> >>>>> This sounds a lot like a missing Python devel RPM. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Marc-Andre Lemburg >>>>> eGenix.com >>>>> >>>>> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 03 >>>>> 2009) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>>>>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>>>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>>>> >>>>> ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! >>>>> :::: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 >>>>> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg >>>>> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >>>>> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Marc-Andre Lemburg >>> eGenix.com >>> >>> Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Nov 03 2009) >>>>>> >>>>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>>>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ >>> >>> ________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: >>> >>> >>> eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 >>> D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg >>> Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 >>> http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ >>> > > > > -- > Rami Chowdhury > "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" -- > Hanlon's Razor > 408-597-7068 (US) / 07875-841-046 (UK) / 0189-245544 (BD) > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
