[Python-Dev] Python3 and arm-linux

Bugbee, Larry larry.bugbee at boeing.com
Fri Apr 24 05:55:04 CEST 2009


> > Somebody knowns, is python3 works on arm-linux. Is it possible to build it?
> > Where to find related discussions? Maybe some special patches already 
> > available? Should i try to get sources from svn or get known version 
> > snapshot?
> >
> 
> I haven't tried, but there's an interesting distro at http://www.vanille-
> media.de/site/index.php/projects/python-for-arm-linux/ -- I don't know if 
> other such distros have better-updated Python versions (eg. current 2.6.* 
> vs that one's 2.4.*) but that one includes a lot of very useful add-ons.

You may want to look at the Ångström distro.
  http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/  
  http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=libpython2.6-1.0
That's where I'll be heading in a couple of weeks.  (I have a new BeagleBoard with an ARM Cortex-A8.)

Larry





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