not sure if this is the right list for this, but it's a starting point. i'm using a wind river linux development environment to build a full system for a powerpc board, and that includes cross-compiling python-2.5.1 for ppc. the compile fails thusly:
powerpc-wrs-linux-gnu-ppc_e500v2-glibc_std-gcc -shared Modules/unicodedata.o -o Modules/unicodedata.so Modules/unicodedata.o: file not recognized: File truncated collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:1159: *** [Modules/unicodedata.so] Error 1 ... snip ... #0 Modules/unicodedata.so at /home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/build/python-2.5.1/BUILD/Python-2.5.1/Makefile:1159 #1 oldsharedmods at /home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/build/python-2.5.1/BUILD/Python-2.5.1/Makefile:440 #2 all at /home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/build/python-2.5.1/BUILD/Python-2.5.1/Makefile:353 Command-line arguments: "OPT=-g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -I=/usr/include -I=/home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/host-cross/powerpc-wrs-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/include/krb5 DESTDIR=/home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/host-cross/powerpc-wrs-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/../.. HOSTPYTHON=./hostpython HOSTPGEN=./Parser/hostpgen" error: Bad exit status from /home/rpjday/workspace/8548_prj/build/python-2.5.1/rpm-tmp.86223 (%build) ... snip ... you can see that the file Modules/unicodedata.o is flagged as not recognized. in fact, it exists but is empty. i'm going to continue digging around but i'm open to suggestions. i also have the full 1700 lines of output from the beginning of the cross-compile if anyone wants to see it. thanks, and is there a more appropriate place to ask this? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list