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Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X86_64 questions
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Eric Blossom |
Subject: |
Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X86_64 questions |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:23:35 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.9i |
Following up on my own posting...
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
>
> Here's the summary:
>
> FC4 and FC5 are internally inconsistent (no data on FC6).
>
> They put the system supplied stuff, both the pure python and the .so's,
> under /usr/lib64/python<VER>
>
> However, they have python configured to report that third party stuff
> should be split between .../lib and .../lib64.
>
> This leads to mischief and complaints that XYZ is broken. We
> currently believe what python says, and thus split the installation
> between lib and lib64.
>
> I see a couple of ways to work around this:
>
> (1) require that FC4, FC5 (and probably FC6) users
> be required to include {prefix}/lib64/python<VER>/site-packages AND
> {prefix}/lib/python<VER>/site-packages in their PYTHONPATH
>
> (2) kludge our configure code so that if python indicates that
> scripts go in lib and .so's go in lib64, we put them all in lib64.
Hearing no overwhelming opinions, I've closed ticket:39 as "WONTFIX".
I've added a note to the bottom of the README that tells Fedora Core
X86_64 users that they'll have to add BOTH the lib64 and lib variants to
PYTHONPATH.
Eric