[OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] python, python-native: upgrade from 2.6.6 to 2.7.2

[Kamble, Nitin A]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.jansa at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:41 PM
> To: Kamble, Nitin A
> Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 4/4] python, python-native: upgrade from
> 2.6.6 to 2.7.2
> 
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 01:09:15PM -0700, Kamble, Nitin A wrote:
> > Martin,
> >   I am fixing the python 2.7.2 recipe, and I need to update the
> generate-manifest-2.7.py script slightly, to get more files included in
> the python-core package.
> 
> great, I was debuging it a bit more today and found out that the
> problem seems to be in python-native, because with python-native-2.7.2
> when I try to build old python-2.6.6 it's also tring to link extra
> modules to -native libpython2.7 and fails:
> /OE/shr-core/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/libpython2.7.so: file
> not recognized: File format not recognized
> 
> but even after comparing sysroots/builddirs/logs from 2.6.6 and 2.7.2 I
> still don't see why it picked right libpython2.6 before and now it
> fails.
> I've tried it without multilib support and partially reverted changes
> in patches from 2.6.6 and still it fails :/
> 
> btw: there seems to be also issue in runtime SHR root at gjama ~ $ python
> -v Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Consider
> setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] # installing zipimport
> hook import zipimport # builtin # installed zipimport hook
> ImportError: No module named site
> # clear __builtin__._
> # clear sys.path
> # clear sys.argv
> # clear sys.ps1
> # clear sys.ps2
> # clear sys.exitfunc
> # clear sys.exc_type
> # clear sys.exc_value
> # clear sys.exc_traceback
> # clear sys.last_type
> # clear sys.last_value
> # clear sys.last_traceback
> # clear sys.path_hooks
> # clear sys.path_importer_cache
> # clear sys.meta_path
> # clear sys.flags
> # clear sys.float_info
> # restore sys.stdin
> # restore sys.stdout
> # restore sys.stderr
> # cleanup __main__
> # cleanup[1] zipimport
> # cleanup[1] signal
> # cleanup[1] exceptions
> # cleanup[1] _warnings
> # cleanup sys
> # cleanup __builtin__
> # cleanup ints: 5 unfreed ints
> # cleanup floats
> 
> > BTW how to run this script ? some documentation of it in the script
> would be useful.

I got python 2.7.2 to work inside the qemux86 machine now. I will send a pull request for review/test today.

Thanks,
Nitin


> 
> just execute it and it prints manifest, so something like this:
> openembedded-core $ scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py >
> meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
> 
> Regards,
> --
> Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com