bootstrapping $EPREFIX/tmp python fails to build _ctypes_test module. adding _ctypes_test to PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES in bootstrap-prefix.sh solves the issue. Reproducible: Always
bootstrapping $EPREFIX/tmp tar fails to build due to a missing definition of CHAR_BIT. setting CPPFLAGS="-DCHAR_BIT=8" in bootstrap-prefix.sh solves the issue.
Created attachment 247720 [details, diff] bootstrap-prefix.patch patch against bootstrap-prefix.sh.
Have you tried bootstrapping on hpux using prefix-launcher? http://sourceforge.net/projects/prefix-launcher/ It also does provide another script named 'eprefix-bootstrap'. Unfortunately, the only problem with prefix-launcher is missing doc.
thx Bruno, added.