Re: Freezing python files into executables

I checked and ls /usr/lib64/python2.4/config/ returns
config.c config.c.in install-sh libpython2.4.a Makefile makesetup
python.o Setup Setup.config Setup.local

so I am guessing the python-devel installation went off OK, from what you say.

I looked at the freeze.py code and I see your point. But for tweaking,
I would need to know what modules should get included from lib64
instead of lib and hardcode them ....
Maybe tinkering around with the makefile which is produced by freeze
is a better way to go?

But since I need to freeze this python code by today, can you suggest
any other tool to do this?

Thanks.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:47 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <> wrote:
> 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 <> wrote:
>>> Rami Chowdhury wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:15:39 -0800, Girish Venkatasubramanian
>>>> <> 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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