This is the method I decided to try to upgrade my python libraries on SME 6.0 to the newest version
----------taken from
http://www.python.org/2.3.3/rpms.html-----------
RPMs For Other Platforms
For platforms in which binaries aren't available here, you can easily build binary RPMs directly from the Python SRPM. Simply download one of the .src.rpm files below, and run "rpmbuild --rebuild python-<version>.src.rpm". Note toward the end of the output, the lines starting with "Wrote:" indicate where the binary RPMs were written.
The benefit of building binary RPMs in this way is that they are built using exactly the set of libraries and versions of packages that you have installed on your system. Because the SRPMs encompass all the steps required to build binary RPMs, it is a "fire and forget" process -- the simplest source build ever.
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1) downloaded python2.3-2.3.3-2pydotorg.src.rpm and tried the suggestion above to build my own binary rpm directly from the python source rpm. I got an error because of failed dependancies and because I was also missing gcc or other tools to compile
2) I did Fresh installation of sme 6.0 on a seperate machine to try and create the binary rpm for my SME Server.
3) I downloaded all the necessary package dependancies and necessary files
needed to compile programs in sme 6.0 and to create a python rpmbuild
--rebuild for the python source rpm including all the following files:
cpp-2.96-98.i386.rpm
db4-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm
db4-devel-4.0.14-14.i386.rpm
expat-devel-1.95.2-2.i386.rpm
gcc-2.96-98.i386.rpm
gdbm-devel-1.8.0-14.i386.rpm
glibc-2.2.5-43.i386.rpm
glibc-common-2.2.5-43.i386.rpm
glibc-devel-2.2.5-43.i386.rpm
kernel-headers-2.2.19-7.0.8.noarch.rpm
python2.3-2.3.3-2pydotorg.src.rpm
4) Once everything was installed that I believed was necessary to create the binary RPM from the python RPM source I tried it again
Code:
# rpmbuild --rebuild python2.3-2.3.3-2pydotorg.src.rpm
Now I'm running into the following error. Any ideas what this error means? Here's the config.log file:
Code:
This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
It was created by python configure 2.3, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.57. Invocation command line was
$ ./configure --enable-unicode=ucs4 --disable-ipv6 --with-pymalloc --prefix=/usr
## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##
hostname = virtualsme6
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 2.4.20-18.7
uname -s = Linux
uname -v = #1 Thu May 29 06:51:53 EDT 2003
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X = unknown
/bin/arch = i686
/usr/bin/arch -k = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
hostinfo = unknown
/bin/machine = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel = unknown
/bin/universe = unknown
PATH: /usr/local/sbin
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /sbin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /usr/sbin
PATH: /usr/bin
PATH: /usr/X11R6/bin
PATH: /root/bin
## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##
configure:1402: checking MACHDEP
configure:1510: result: linux2
configure:1516: checking EXTRAPLATDIR
configure:1531: result:
configure:1544: checking for --without-gcc
configure:1593: result: no
configure:1599: checking for --with-cxx=<compiler>
configure:1620: result: no
configure:1639: checking for c++
configure:1668: result: no
configure:1639: checking for g++
configure:1668: result: no
configure:1639: checking for gcc
configure:1655: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:1665: result: gcc
configure:1706: checking for C++ compiler default output
configure:1709: gcc conftest.cc >&5
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1plus': No such file or directory
configure:1712: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| #line 1685 "configure"
| /* confdefs.h. */
|
| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
| #define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1
| #define __BSD_VISIBLE 1
| #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
| #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1
| #define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
| /* end confdefs.h. */
|
| int
| main ()
| {
|
| ;
| return 0;
| }
configure:1751: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
## ---------------- ##
## Cache variables. ##
## ---------------- ##
ac_cv_env_CC_set=
ac_cv_env_CC_value=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_CPPFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_CPP_set=
ac_cv_env_CPP_value=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_set=
ac_cv_env_LDFLAGS_value=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_build_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_host_alias_value=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_set=
ac_cv_env_target_alias_value=
ac_cv_prog_CXX=gcc
## ----------------- ##
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##
AR=''
BASECFLAGS=''
BLDLIBRARY=''
BLDSHARED=''
BUILDEXEEXT=''
CC=''
CCSHARED=''
CFLAGS=''
CFLAGSFORSHARED=''
CONFIG_ARGS=''--enable-unicode=ucs4' '--disable-ipv6' '--with-pymalloc' '--prefix=/usr''
CPP=''
CPPFLAGS=''
CXX='gcc'
DEFS=''
DLINCLDIR=''
DLLLIBRARY=''
DYNLOADFILE=''
ECHO_C=''
ECHO_N='-n'
ECHO_T=''
EGREP=''
EXEEXT=''
EXTRAMACHDEPPATH=''
EXTRAPLATDIR=''
HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME=''
HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R=''
HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_3_ARG=''
HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_5_ARG=''
HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R_6_ARG=''
INSTALL_DATA=''
INSTALL_PROGRAM=''
INSTALL_SCRIPT=''
INSTSONAME=''
LDFLAGS=''
LDLAST=''
LDLIBRARY=''
LDLIBRARYDIR=''
LDSHARED=''
LIBC=''
LIBM=''
LIBOBJS=''
LIBRARY=''
LIBS=''
LIBTOOL_CRUFT=''
LINKCC=''
LINKFORSHARED=''
LN=''
LTLIBOBJS=''
MACHDEP='linux2'
MACHDEP_OBJS=''
MAINOBJ='python.o'
OBJEXT=''
OPT=''
PACKAGE_BUGREPORT=''
PACKAGE_NAME='python'
PACKAGE_STRING='python 2.3'
PACKAGE_TARNAME='python'
PACKAGE_VERSION='2.3'
PATH_SEPARATOR=':'
PYTHONFRAMEWORK=''
PYTHONFRAMEWORKDIR='no-framework'
PYTHONFRAMEWORKINSTALLDIR=''
PYTHONFRAMEWORKPREFIX=''
RANLIB=''
RUNSHARED=''
SGI_ABI=''
SHELL='/bin/sh'
SHLIBS=''
SIGNAL_OBJS=''
SO=''
SOVERSION='1.0'
SRCDIRS=''
THREADHEADERS=''
THREADOBJ=''
TRUE=''
UNICODE_OBJS=''
USE_SIGNAL_MODULE=''
USE_THREAD_MODULE=''
VERSION='2.3'
ac_ct_CC=''
ac_ct_RANLIB=''
bindir='${exec_prefix}/bin'
build_alias=''
datadir='${prefix}/share'
exec_prefix='NONE'
host_alias=''
includedir='${prefix}/include'
infodir='${prefix}/info'
libdir='${exec_prefix}/lib'
libexecdir='${exec_prefix}/libexec'
localstatedir='${prefix}/var'
mandir='${prefix}/man'
oldincludedir='/usr/include'
prefix='/usr'
program_transform_name='s,x,x,'
sbindir='${exec_prefix}/sbin'
sharedstatedir='${prefix}/com'
sysconfdir='${prefix}/etc'
target_alias=''
## ----------- ##
## confdefs.h. ##
## ----------- ##
#define _GNU_SOURCE 1
#define _NETBSD_SOURCE 1
#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 200112L
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1
#define __BSD_VISIBLE 1
configure: exit 77
