Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Missing python in lfssystem

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Wed, November 28, 2007 16:39, bldrdash wrote:
>> Simply selecting Python in "make menuconfig" will resolve this issue.
>> Or
>> just edit the .config file directly and make sure you got
>> CONFIG_PYTHON=y
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm attempting to build 1.2 for the first time and am having the same
> problem; python is not in the lfssystem. Python is selected in "make
> menuconfig" and I've verified CONFIG=PYTHON=y in the .config.
>
> I'm new to DL and LFS (but experienced in other distros and compiling
> from source), but it seems to me that this option would compile python for
> the disto, but not the chrooted environment.  Looks like jailkit requires
> python in order to build the package.
>
> I tried going into build\tmp\Python-2.4.4 and doing a ./configure, make
> install in the hope it would install to my chrooted environment... but it
> failed.
>
> My environment is:
> lfssystem-cvs-20030127-i486-stripped.tar.bz2 cvs
> ...@devil-linux.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/devil-linux co -r
> rel-1-2-patches build cvs update -d -P
>
> Any suggestions?

Did you enable Python after you already had a compile running?
If yes, you may need to delete the file tmp/.done_build_Python and do
another "make build".
The Python build script takes care of the compilation and installation
into the LFS system.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org