Hello,

to save me hours of debuggins, I hope to find some hints for the bunch
of Python related issus. I add the full build log as attachment and at
the bottom of the mail some extracts of it.

To get this far I needed to comment out a line the ebuild:

src_prepare() {
        # Ensure that internal copies of expat, libffi and zlib are not used.
        rm -fr Modules/expat
#       rm -fr Modules/_ctypes/libffi*
        rm -fr Modules/zlib

Else it ends with this ( and there are no more libffi messages):

error: /home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1/work/Python-2.6.4/Modules/_ctypes/libffi:
No such file or directory

So it seems it can only work with the internal copy of libffi. Why?

In Cygwin there is a runtime:

/usr/bin/cygffi-4.dll

In Prefix there is:

/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/bin/cygffi-5.dll
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include/ffi.h
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include/ffitarget.h
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/libffi.dll.a
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/libffi.la
/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib/pkgconfig/libffi.pc


The other issus is a missing _PyFPE_counter. Is this likely

[ ] a bug in python
[ ] a bug in a patch
[ ] a library not found

Finally a also tested the old python-2.4.6. It is compiled but ends with:

*   emake altinstall maninstall failed


Thank you for help

Al


./configure --prefix=/home/prefix/gentoo/usr --build=i686-pc-cygwin1.7
--host=i686-pc-cygwin1.7 --mandir=/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/share/man
--infodir=/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/share/info
--datadir=/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/share
--sysconfdir=/home/prefix/gentoo/etc
--localstatedir=/home/prefix/gentoo/var/lib --with-fpectl
--disable-ipv6 --with-threads --enable-unicode=ucs4
--infodir=${prefix}/share/info --mandir=${prefix}/share/man
--with-libc= --with-system-ffi --enable-shared
[...]
Creating library file: libpython2.6.dll.a
[...]
gcc -L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib  -L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -L.  -o
python.exe \
			Modules/python.o \
			libpython2.6.dll.a -ldl    -lm
[...]
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers
[...]
building 'math' extension
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -I.
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/./Include
-I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/include
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Include
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5
-c /home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.c
-o build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.o
/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.c:
In function `math_fsum':
/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.c:574:
warning: passing arg 1 of `PyFPE_dummy' discards qualifiers from
pointer target type
gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib
-L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -L. -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -I.
-IInclude -I./Include -I/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/include
build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.o
-L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib -L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -L. -lm
-lpython2.6 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/math.dll
build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.o:mathmodule.c:(.text+0x3d1):
undefined reference to `_PyFPE_counter'
[...]
build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/mathmodule.o:mathmodule.c:(.text+0x2195):
undefined reference to `_PyFPE_counter'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

building 'strop' extension
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -I.
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/./Include
-I. -IInclude -I./Include -I/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/include
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Include
-I/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5
-c /home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/stropmodule.c
-o build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/stropmodule.o
gcc -shared -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib
-L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -L. -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -I.
-IInclude -I./Include -I/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/include
build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/stropmodule.o
-L/home/prefix/gentoo/usr/lib -L/home/prefix/gentoo/lib -L.
-lpython2.6 -o build/lib.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/strop.dll
build/temp.cygwin-1.7.7-i686-2.6/home/prefix/gentoo/var/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2/work/Python-2.6.5/Modules/stropmodule.o:stropmodule.c:(.text+0x1d2d):
undefined reference to `_PyFPE_counter'
[...]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
[...]
Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
_bsddb             _hashlib           _sqlite3
_ssl               _tkinter           bsddb185
gdbm               linuxaudiodev      nis
ossaudiodev        spwd               sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for
the module's name.


Failed to build these modules:
cmath              math               strop

[...]

make: *** [sharedmods] Error 1
 * ERROR: dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r2 failed:
 *   emake failed