Freezing python files into executables

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Girish Venkatasubramanian wrote:
> Hey Marc-Andre,
> Ummm - I have installed python-devel.x86_64 and checked that the
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/ is populated - anything else I can/shuld do to
> check/ensure the the devel rpm is installed?

If you have the config/ sub-dir in there, things should be
fine.

However, it's possible that you need to tweek the freeze.py
script a little, since RedHat chose to split the Python
installation on x64 in two parts and they may have missed
patching freeze.py as well:

The platform independent parts are in /usr/lib, whereas the
platform dependent parts are in /usr/lib64.

Python normally doesn't support this. It only has a
prefix and an exec_prefix, but those only allow to do
things like prefix=/usr and exec_prefix=/usr64, not
changing the lib/ part in /usr/lib/.

> Thanks.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:39 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian
>>> <girishvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I have been using freeze.py on 32 bit linux distributions without a
>>>> problem. But recently I tried to do the same on RHEL5 x86_64 and ran
>>>> into some issues.
>>>>
>>>> 1) When I ran the script, I got
>>>> Error: needed directory /usr/lib/python2.4/config not found
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know anything about freeze.py but on 64-bit Red Hat distros
>>> (RHEL, Fedora, etc) it should be /usr/lib64/python2.4/config :-)
>>
>> This sounds a lot like a missing Python devel RPM.
>>
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