On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:15:13AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 11:56 +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?
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/freeze$ ls -lh run_tests
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 aglitke aglitke 3.3M 2008-11-19 07:58 run_tests
Ok, fairly big, but not prohibitively enormous.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/freeze$ ldd run_tests
> linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff7b5ff000)
> libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f72730f5000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7272ef1000)
> libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f7272cee000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7272a6d000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f727270b000)
> /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7273311000)
Essentially just libc, that's very promising. I wonder if freezing
against uclibc or the like, rather than glibc would work.
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