X86_64 questions

GNU Radio
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Thanks to all of you who have sent me the output of the script.
I’ve got enough for now :wink:

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

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/site-packages AND
{prefix}/lib/python/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.

Any comments or suggestions WRT these or other options?

I loved seeing the “purist X86_64” systems – the ones with no 32-bit
code :wink:

Eric

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Eric -

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Eric B. wrote:

I loved seeing the “purist X86_64” systems – the ones with no 32-bit code :wink:

Why the he|| would I want to run 32-bit code on a 64-bit machine?

1/2 :slight_smile:

  • Larry
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Following up on my own posting…

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:48:51PM -0700, Eric B. wrote:

(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