[pypy-dev] question re: ancient SSL requirement of pypy

[Dale Hubler]

Hi to all who answered me and thanks for the good assistance.   I gave 
up on the binary distribution right off, and tried to build it from 
source on RHEL5.  I had the most difficulty with the libffi part, I 
tried a server located directory, /usr/local, and finally /usr as my 
libffi installdir, but gave up finally with the key error being the ffi 
include file not being located.  RHEL6 has this libffi library readily 
available to our installs, I may pursue an install from the source on 
RHEL6 instead, once I go over the pre-reqs.  It worked fine with the 
existing SSL libraries as others posted, I did not need 0.9.8 at all.

The absolute most help are the RPM's built by David Malcolm at EPEL, 
thanks so much for those.  They installed well and I will place them in 
our satellite server for subsequent kickstarts.  Our researchers have 
had a nice speedup with their python and are very eager to try it.

So my next problem is that the users upped their request.  They did not 
tell me they wanted particular modules also, such as numpy.   I saw 
reference to numpypy and will look into that, I've not read any docs on 
installing pypy modules yet.  I'm familiar with installing python 
modules already.

I do have a question along those lines.   We have a fileserver located 
python 2.7.2 and we install python modules into that location.  When I 
am building pypy from the source I have been using that version of 
python.  If I use that python and am successful at building pypy will 
users of my pypy have access to the python modules in that python 
install, or rather do I need to independently install all the modules 
pypy users want into the pypy filetree?   i.e., Does pypy use the 
available python modules on the host, or does it need its own?

thanks to all again,
Dale




On 02/21/2012 08:16 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
>
> FWIW, I've built PyPy 1.8 in RPM form for RHEL 5 and 6, within the
> "EPEL" community repositories:  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>
> So if you've configured the EPEL repos, you can install pypy via:
>
>    # yum install pypy
>
> and not have to do the translation yourself.
>
> Note that this is a side-project by me, not an "official" Red
> Hat-supported thing.
>
> The EPEL 5 builds of pypy 1.8 can be seen here:
>    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0276
>
> The EPEL 6 builds of pypy 1.8 can be seen here:
>    https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2012-0275
>
> Hope this is helpful
> Dave
>


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-- Dale Hubler    dhubler at uw.edu (206) 685-4035
Senior Computer Specialist University of Washington Genome Sciences Dept.