[oe] python roadmap

[Vitus Jensen]

Am Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:47:26 +0100 schrieb Michael 'Mickey' Lauer:

> Thanks to some extrashifts this work has proceeded faster than
> scheduled. I plan to merge mickey/python26 into master on friday. If you
> see something dangerous, yell.

Yell ;-)

See http://bugs.openembedded.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5013

python26 fails to build for the big-endian machines I tried, namely 
nslu2be.  And as python25 was removed it is a real blocker for packages 
which DEPEND on pathon, which inturn is the case for php.  And php I'm 
trying to get a version working again.

do_compile tries to load a .so on the host which was build for armeb and 
complains about wrong byteorder.  But there is no complain when 
MACHINE=nslu2le in which case the .so shouldn't be loadable, too (it's 
for arm after all, not x86).  AND python25 used exactly the same 
do_compile method, and does not fail!

So I'm a little confused how it's supposed to work.  Could you please 
take a look at it?

Thanks,
  Vitus

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