<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> <sect1 id="ch-tools-Python" role="wrap"> <?dbhtml filename="Python.html"?> <sect1info condition="script"> <productname>Python</productname> <productnumber>&python-version;</productnumber> <address>&python-url;</address> </sect1info> <title>Python-&python-version;</title> <indexterm zone="ch-tools-Python"> <primary sortas="a-Python">Python</primary> <secondary>tools</secondary> </indexterm> <sect2 role="package"> <title/> <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="../chapter06/python.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/> <segmentedlist> <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle> <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle> <seglistitem> <seg>&python-ch5-sbu;</seg> <seg>&python-ch5-du;</seg> </seglistitem> </segmentedlist> </sect2> <sect2 role="installation"> <title>Installation of Python</title> <para>This package first builds the Python interpreter, then some standard Python modules. The main script for building modules is written in Python, and uses hard-coded paths to the host <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename> and <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories. To prevent them from being used, issue:</para> <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/def add_multiarch_paths/a \ return' setup.py</userinput></screen> <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para> <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools --without-ensurepip</userinput></screen> <variablelist> <title>The meaning of the configure option:</title> <varlistentry> <term><parameter>--without-ensurepip</parameter></term> <listitem> <para>This switch disables the Python installer, which is not needed at this stage.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> <para>Compile the package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen> <para>Compilation is now complete. The test suite requires TK and and X Windows and cannot be run at this time. </para> <para>Install the package:</para> <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen> </sect2> <sect2 role="content"> <title/> <para>Details on this package are located in <xref linkend="contents-python" role="."/></para> </sect2> </sect1>