Re: [gentoo-alt] bootstrap with older python

[Markus Duft]

Fabian Groffen schrieb:
> On 05-05-2008 11:44:36 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
>> Fabian Groffen schrieb:
>>> On 05-05-2008 10:26:34 +0200, Markus Duft wrote:
>>>> Fabian Groffen schrieb:
>>>>> On 05-05-2008 08:25:08 +0200, Duft Markus wrote:
>>>>>>> I was able to bootstrap with 2.5.2, what's your exact problem why you
>>>>>>> need old Python?
>>>>>> Hah... the problem is, that for some weird reason i cannot build python outside the prefix.... it works when using portage, but i can't make it without portage. As long as i can't find the reason for it, we'll still have python 2.4 in prefix-launcher...
>>>>> You may be interested in my workaround... I just created a patched
>>>>> tarball for interix ;)
>>>> i want to have it really bad :) could you send me a patch?
>>> http://dev.gentoo.org/~grobian/distfiles/python-2.5.2-interix.tar.bz2
>> thanks :) which patches from the tree are applied there?
>
> env CHOST="i586-pc-interix3.5" ebuild python-2.5.2-r2.ebuild unpack
> cd "${S}"
> tar -jcf python-2.5.2-interix.tar.bz2 Python-2.5.2

hmmm... trying to use the python built from that sources to bootstrap i 
get this exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/bin/emerge", 
line 18, in <module>
     retval = _emerge.emerge_main()
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", 
line 6702, in emerge_main
     myopts, myaction, myfiles, mysets, spinner)
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", 
line 6140, in action_build
     retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/_emerge/__init__.py", 
line 3881, in merge
     prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", 
line 4227, in doebuild
     digestgen(aalist, mysettings, overwrite=0, myportdb=mydbapi)
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", 
line 3317, in digestgen
     "assume-digests" in mysettings.features))
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/portage/manifest.py", 
line 453, in create
     self.fhashdict[mytype][f] = 
perform_multiple_checksums(self.pkgdir+f, self.hashes)
   File 
"/tools/mduft/prefix-launcher-1pre.20080505/i586-pc-interix6.0/lib/portage/pym/portage/checksum.py", 
line 255, in perform_multiple_checksums
     raise portage.exception.DigestException, x+" hash function not 
available (needs dev-python/pycrypto or >=dev-lang/python-2.5)"
portage.exception.DigestException: RMD160 hash function not available 
(needs dev-python/pycrypto or >=dev-lang/python-2.5)


did you also install pycrypto? something is strange here... i thought 
python 2.5 would suffice...

Cheers, Markus

>
>>> Can you send me the binutils-2.17 patches? ;)
>> yap sure... attached... it's a plain diff (-ruNbB) without any reworking,
>> so there may be stuff in there you don't need (like docs or such...)
>
> Autch...  Thanks, but this is a mailing list and 1.3M is quite huge,
> keep that in mind next time.
>
> I will try to continue my bootstrap with native-cctools instead for now,
> for as long as I can't figure out why the lib can't be found.
>
>

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