Contributed by Jeff Simpson. This doesn't actually work yet,

and will need considerably more effort to make python properly
cross compile.  More of a placeholder for now....

make/python.mk

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+#############################################################
+#
+# python
+#
+#############################################################
+PYTHON_VERSION=2.3.2
+PYTHON_SOURCE:=Python-$(PYTHON_VERSION).tgz
+PYTHON_SITE:=http://python.org/ftp/python/$(PYTHON_VERSION)
+PYTHON_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/Python-$(PYTHON_VERSION)
+PYTHON_CAT:=zcat
+PYTHON_BINARY:=python
+PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/python_install
+PYTHON_TARGET_BINARY:=$(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)/bin/python
+
+
+$(DL_DIR)/$(PYTHON_SOURCE):
+	 $(WGET) -P $(DL_DIR) $(PYTHON_SITE)/$(PYTHON_SOURCE)
+
+python-source: $(DL_DIR)/$(PYTHON_SOURCE)
+
+$(PYTHON_DIR)/.unpacked: $(DL_DIR)/$(PYTHON_SOURCE)
+	$(PYTHON_CAT) $(DL_DIR)/$(PYTHON_SOURCE) | tar -C $(BUILD_DIR) -xvf -
+	touch $(PYTHON_DIR)/.unpacked
+
+$(PYTHON_DIR)/.configured: $(PYTHON_DIR)/.unpacked
+	(cd $(PYTHON_DIR); rm -rf config.cache; \
+		$(TARGET_CONFIGURE_OPTS) \
+		./configure \
+		--target=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
+		--host=$(GNU_TARGET_NAME) \
+		--build=$(GNU_HOST_NAME) \
+		--prefix=/usr \
+		--sysconfdir=/etc \
+		$(DISABLE_NLS) \
+	);
+	touch  $(PYTHON_DIR)/.configured
+
+$(PYTHON_DIR)/$(PYTHON_BINARY): $(PYTHON_DIR)/.configured
+	LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(STAGING_DIR)/lib
+	$(MAKE) CC=$(TARGET_CC) -C $(PYTHON_DIR)
+
+$(TARGET_DIR)/$(PYTHON_TARGET_BINARY): $(PYTHON_DIR)/$(PYTHON_BINARY)
+
+python: uclibc $(TARGET_DIR)/$(PYTHON_TARGET_BINARY)
+	$(MAKE) CC=$(TARGET_CC) -C $(PYTHON_DIR) install
+	rm $(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)/bin/idle
+	rm $(PYTHON_INSTALL_DIR)/bin/pydoc
+	rm -rf $(TARGET_DIR)/share/locale $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/info \
+		$(TARGET_DIR)/usr/man $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/share/doc
+
+python-clean:
+	-$(MAKE) -C $(PYTHON_DIR) distclean
+	rm $(PYTHON_DIR)/.configured
+
+python-dirclean:
+	rm -rf $(PYTHON_DIR)
+