Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Latest GIT on OpenSuse 11.4 x64 - PYTHONPATH

[Josh Blum]

On 04/27/2011 01:19 PM, Moeller wrote:
> Unfortunately, the Gnuradio "make install" Installer
> is a bit buggy. It distributes python libs between
> the lib64 and lib folders. Python cannot handle this chaos,
> even with both directories in PYTHONPATH.
> 
> I solved it by creating a symlink before installing:
> 
> ln -s /usr/local/lib64/python2.7/ /usr/local/lib/python2.7
> 
> Apparently, Gnuradio is the only app that wrote to /usr/local/lib/python2.7,
> because this directory didn't exist before (pure 64 Bit operating system).
> 
> After symlinking, the "make install" effectively writes all into
> a single destination and Python finds all dependencies.
> 
> I never understood, why this Linux introduced the lib64 folders.
> Why not keeping the 64 Bit code in the lib standard location
> and put all legacy 32 bit code in lib32 folders?
> Do other Linux distributions handle this in a different way?
> 

Other Redhat family distros seem to do it the same way opensuse does.

Ubantu on 64 bit machines has a lib32 and lib, lib64 is just a symbolic
link to lib. I think that makes tons of sense:

ls -al /usr/
total 272
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  root   4096 2011-01-18 11:34 .
drwxr-xr-x  24 root  root   4096 2011-03-19 10:26 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root  69632 2011-04-15 09:00 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root   4096 2011-04-01 23:59 games
drwxr-xr-x  75 root  root  20480 2011-04-08 10:44 include
drwxr-xr-x 246 root  root 102400 2011-04-15 09:00 lib
drwxr-xr-x  41 root  root  36864 2011-01-26 22:44 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root      3 2010-11-25 20:56 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x   9 jblum root   4096 2011-01-21 15:18 local
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  root  12288 2011-04-11 11:02 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 362 root  root  12288 2011-04-08 10:44 share
drwxrwsr-x  12 root  src    4096 2011-03-19 10:25 src

-Josh