John Stowers added the comment: Hello,
I recently tried this in combination with jhbuild, cross compiling with mingw (to built some python gtk extensions). I tried you patch against the 2.5.1 version and recieved the following error: checking for /dev/ptmx... yes checking for /dev/ptc... no checking for %zd printf() format support... configure: error: cannot run test program while cross compiling See `config.log' for more details. *** error during stage configure of python25: ########## Error running ./configure --prefix /home/john/jhbuild/win32/build/ --build=i686-pc-linux-gnuaout --host=i586-pc-mingw32msvc --target=i586-pc-mingw32msvc --disable-docs --enable-all-warnings AR="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-ar" RANLIB="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-ranlib" STRIP="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-strip" AS="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-as" DLLTOOL="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-dlltool" OBJDUMP="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-objdump" NM="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-nm" WINDRES="/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-windres" *** [1/1] I noticed that the other reference for cross compiling pthon 2.5 at http://whatschrisdoing.com/blog/2006/10/06/howto-cross-compile-python-25/ patched this check out ---------- nosy: +nzjrs _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1597850> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com