Hello all, I freshly subscribed to this list, because I search a solution for a very special problem. Is this the appropriate list?
Context ====== I try if it is possible to bootstrap Gentoo Prefix, upon the Cygwin compatibility layer on Windows. Gentoo Prefix is not a virtual machine but a bundle of Gentoo programs compiled into a nonstandard directory on a host OS. IT is similar to Cygwin itself, but compiled from sources. I try to compile Prefix into Cygwin on Windows. This involves compiling python. The gentoo management tool "emerge" is done in python. However I am not a Python programmer myself, so I have some difficulties to understand what is going on. Problem ====== After compiling pyhton I run into errors when I start to use it in form of emerge. It says something like this in the logger module: Import Error sys, os, types, time, string, cStringIO, traceback. Permission denied. I researched the web. One discssion told to try it on the pyhton shell. I did the same. Only "time" and "cStringIO" are not imported. Looking into the compiled sources i find cStringIO.dll and time.dll. Both have the permissions 755. Hence permission to run them should be given. Is it a path problem? Are environment variables wrong? I would expect in that case python would complain "Modules not found" instead of "Permission denied". I am at the end of my wits now. Al -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
