[uClibc] Python in buildroot

[Manuel Novoa III]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 09:26:35PM +0200, Henri van Riel wrote:
> > Are you sure the python build process isn't trying to run the newly
> > created executable? Some (bad) makefiles do this, and thus create
> > issues when cross-compiling for architectures or libraries.
> 
> Yeah, that is exactly what is happening. But I am using the makefile
> from the buildroot distribution, the python.mk. So I was wondering if
> this is `standard behavior` or if I need to patch something or missing
> something.

>From the cvs logs... Dec 3, 2003:

  Contributed by Jeff Simpson.  This doesn't actually work yet,
  and will need considerably more effort to make python properly
  cross compile.  More of a placeholder for now....

The python build system runs the newly created python during the build.

> I think I know what it is though, I'm building without thread support
> and my guess is python needs the libpthread library to build.

Afraid it isn't that easy.

Manuel