On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 11:50 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:56:54AM +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:06:57AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote: > > > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 17:51 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:26:12PM +0000, Adam Litke wrote: > > [snip] > > > > The one big thing that worries me about switching to Python is that it > > > > introduces another build and test dependency. That's not a big issue > > > > for regular desktop or server systems - Python's common enough. But > > > > it is an issue for embedded boards, where hugepage support is becoming > > > > increasingly common. In particular that's troublesome because > > > > libhugetlbfs is de fact the testsuite for kernel hugepage support as > > > > well as for the library itself. Making it harder to do a thorough > > > > test of hugepages on J Random embedded board is a non-trivial > > > > drawback. > > > > > > Yes, you make a good point here. If the target system lacks Python, > > > could they just use freeze to produce a binary? > > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/Freeze > > > > Maybe. How big are the executables produced by Freeze? What > > libraries do they depend on, typically? > > Oh, and how does it work for cross-compiling, that is, if the system > you're planning to run the frozen binary on is a different ISA to the > one you're doing the freezing on.
The Makefile generated by freeze is easy to modify for cross-compiling. You'd need a robust cross-compile environment (with the target platform's python libs installed). But if this hypothetical embedded shop is already relying on a cross-compile environment to build the rest of the OS for their small board, they can handle this too. -- Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com) IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Libhugetlbfs-devel mailing list Libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libhugetlbfs-devel
