On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 02:46:02PM +0200, figdev--- via pypy-dev wrote: Hello,
> This is more about OpenBSD than FreeBSD (I've talked to maintainers for > each) but I'm curious about the requirements for building PyPy (especially > 2.7 compatible) from source. > > For GNU/Linux I just download the binary you provide, but OpenBSD > maintainers have to build it themselves. (There was a FreeBSD binary here, > 64-bit only, a long time ago.) > > For FreeBSD, they have having loads of trouble because they have deprecated > CPython 2.7, which they use to build PyPy. I bet you can use PyPy to build > PyPy, but if you're doing everything from source that's a Catch-22 if you > don't have CPython, isn't it? (You would think they would just compile from > a previous binary). The easiest thing, almost certainly, will be to generate a bootstrap using CPython 2.7 (even though it's deprecated, I would expect it to build without any patches) and host that somewhere -- it'll be easier, in general, than trying to host pypy (n-1) somewhere, as you'll end up with problems when things like shared libraries change, and you'll have to rebootstrap pypy. Laurie _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
