Python

why Python?

• because writing is C sucks
• your time is valuable
• once a python zealot, always a python zealot.

Compiling python from source

Supposedly there are patches that will allow you cross compile python. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get it to work. The problem is that the Python build system uses the binary it generates to finish the build process - meaning that in a cross compiling situation you have to build an arm binary *and* a localhost binary (i686-linux-gnu or whatever).

A good starting point is http://www.mail-archive.com/patches@python.org/msg03662.html.

using an existing python binary

Luckily a number of existing linux platforms already support builds for the arm-linux. It is fairly painless to grab a binary from one of these systems and make it work on the chumby.