Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] x86_64 path proposal

[David P. Reed]

Eric -

A very clean fix for the path problem on Fedora x86_64 machines is as 
follows:

in each directory in site-packages/gnuradio modify the __init__.py file 
to include the following two lines as the first lines after the comments:

import pkgutil
__path__ = pkgutil.extend_path(__path__, __name__)

and then if the pyexecdir is different from pythondir, create symbolic 
links from each directory created in pyexecdir to __init__.py in the 
corresponding directory in pythondir (you could just copy __init__.py).

What this does, for example, is put the above two lines in 
.../lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio/gr/__init__.py amd a symbolic 
link to that file in .../lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio/gr 
(where the arch-dependent compiled files are installed).

Thus, when you do

    from gnuradio import gr


the path gets changed in the __init__.py to include both directories, 
and thus gr's pieces all do imports that search both directories.

This seems to me to be clean and "correct".   It has the result that if 
you are running a 32-bit version of python, you just leave lib64 out of 
PYTHONPATH and the 64-bit-specific code will not be found first. 
(Fedora should have a lib32/python2.4/site-packages, but it depends on 
path ordering to do that).


I have tested this and it works swell.