patch to emerge python-2.6.4 with right pkg-config (now -r1)

[acevery]

python-2.6.4 from openmoko overlay failed in cross-compile with LIBFFI='"/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.9/include/"

below patch use the correct pkg-config to fetch the correct LIBFFI in configure.in

[acevery]

patch to python-2.6.4.ebuild in openmoko overlay

[sleipnir]

Thanks for the patch. However, one question remains: If libffi was compiled with custom CFLAGS the variable "FFI_CFLAGS" might contain strings other than "-I<something>".

In other words, your approach would fail if FFI_CFLAGS contains e.g. -O3 or something. So could you please fix this case!?

[acevery]

improved patch

[acevery]

I updated the pkg-config patch to use ${PKG_CONFIG} to get the only interested part :)

[sleipnir]

Applied in revision 752. Thanks for your patch!

[acevery]

My pleasure :)

[ikrabbe]

I reopened this ticket as I watched a strange build.log in the cross part of the python build. Though the final error is still libffi it looks just wrong what happens before:

armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi-gcc -shared -L. -DNDEBUG -Os -pipe -march=armv4t -mtune=arm920t -fomit-frame-pointer -fwrapv -I. -IInclude -I./Include build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.6/usr/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/tmp/portage/dev-lang/python-2.6.4-r1/work/Python-2.6.4/Modules/_struct.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L. -lpython2.6 -o build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/_struct.so
/usr/libexec/gcc/armv4tl-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libc.so when searching for -lc
/usr/lib/libc.a: could not read symbols: File format not recognized

... and more of these

-L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib this looks as a configuration error.

anyway I will try to care about python-2.6.4-r1 later.