Building Python 2.4 on machines that do not support dynamic loading

2005-12-04 Thread Robert McLay
I have been trying to build python on Cray X1. As far as I can tell it does not support dynamic loading. So the question is: How to build 2.4 without dynamic loading? That is: can I build 2.4 where all the extensions are archived in libpython2.4.a as a static library? Building on the Cray

Is bytecode machine (in)dependent?

2005-10-28 Thread Robert McLay
I'm trying to understand bytecodes generated on different machines. I understand that the bytecodes can change between version. But since I'm told that .pyc files are version dependent but not machine dependent, I'm wondering why the bytecodes are machine dependent. my friend and I created this