Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] X86_64 questions

[Eric Blossom]

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