I can build python 2.4.2 from source on the embedded linux box when I nfs mount and boot a full debian distribution. The embedded box also has stripped down linux distribution in onboard flash. My goal is to run python from the stripped down linux in onboard flash.
I can successfully install python to the onboard flash when booted to the nfs version by using make install with $DESTDIR set to the onboard flash mounted directory I then reboot to the onboard flash and can run python from there. This works if I build python without threading support because the onboard flash does not include the libpthread.so library I need threading support for sockets etc. I believe that if I can build python with pthread linked statically then I should be able to run python when booted from the onboard flash without problem. Problem is I am clueless about how to do this. The setup and setup.py files only deal with building modules static or shared where as threading is build into the python interpreter it seems not as a module. I read the readme in the source distribution but can't find any configure options that will let me build python with static linking of the pthread library. I have searched google and find vague references to doing something like that. I don't understand the makefile well enough to know how to do it there. So does anyone understand how include threading support statically? What I have to modify to do it? When I tried to run python with shared threading support while booted from the onboard flash it got the following error ./python: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I naively copied the pthread library from the nfs version to the onboard flash version and rebooted and ran python. This time I got the following error /usr/local/bin/python: relocation error: /lib/libpthread.so.0: symbol __libc_sigaction, ve rsion GLIBC_2.2 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference so apparently I can't just copy shared libraries around. An alternative solution would be to correctly copy the shared library? Any help comments would be appreciated Sam ********************************************************************** Samuel M. Smith Ph.D. 2966 Fort Hill Road Eagle Mountain, Utah 84043 801-768-2768 voice 801-768-2769 fax ********************************************************************** "The greatest source of failure and unhappiness in the world is giving up what we want most for what we want at the moment" ********************************************************************** -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
