I have been trying to build python on Cray X1. As far as I can
tell it does not support dynamic loading. So the question is:
How to build 2.4 without dynamic loading?
That is: can I build 2.4 where all the extensions are archived in
libpython2.4.a as a static library?
Building on the Cray X1 is slow, so I have been trying to also
build it under Linux without dynamic loading since it
configures/builds so much faster.
I edited the configure script so that it doesn't know that dlopen
works. The file "pyconfig.h" undefines HAVE_DYNAMIC_LOADING
HAVE_LIBDL and so on. Under linux it still builds .so files
but it gives the following message for all .so files:
*** WARNING: importing extension "dl" failed with
exceptions.AttributeError: 'module' object has no
attribute 'load_dynamic'
It seems like it is possible to build python without dynamic
loading as someone build python 2.3 on the X1. For various
reason I need 2.4, it just not clear what the trick is.
I have done some google group and web searching without success
so I'm asking all you experts to shine some light in this dark
corner.
