Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] PYTHONPATH on Fedora Core 6 x86_64

[Eric Blossom]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 09:14:41AM +0100, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> 2006/11/3, Eric Blossom <address@hidden>:
> >On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:25:33PM +0100, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> >
> >You may need to create an empty file called __init__.py in the one or
> >more of the site-packages and/or site-packages/gnuradio directories.
> >
> >Somebody who cares should file a bug report against this inconsistency
> >in whatever bug tracker FC* uses.  They treat system installed
> >packages different than third party packages.
> >
> >Eric
> >
> 
> I would gladly file a bug report, but I need some help clearing up
> what the problem is. There are two ways to add a module to the search
> path: Either add a module.pth file as described in site.py or add a
> __init__.py file to the module folder, but I do not know what the best
> practice is. Currently some of the gnuradio modules does neither. Is
> this a problem with gnuradio or fedora?
> 
> -- 
> Trond Danielsen

Hi Trond,

It's a fedora problem.  However, the problem isn't really the
__init__.py stuff, it's how Python is configured.  The requirement to
install into both the lib and lib64 trees is the problem, and in fact
isn't how they handle code that is distributed with python.

If you check the archives for X86_64 and FC5 you'll find a bunch of
discussion of this problem.  Look for the part where I'm asking X86_64
users for data, and then the summary.

Eric