Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] x86_64 issues I'd like input about.

[Trond Danielsen]

2006/11/21, David P. Reed <address@hidden>:
> Having updated to FC6 on my x86_64 laptop, I decided to play with the
> install process there.   A couple of issues have arisen that I would be
> interested in from folks who understand more about gnuradio than I.
>
> [...]
>
> 2. The problem with Fedora's x86_64 python library layout is well known,
> but I found two approaches to work around it as I've been exploring the
> depths of python search paths, etc.   One (which works like a charm) is
> to put a gnuradio.pth file in lib64/site-packages, that contains:
>
>     gnuradio
>     gnuradio/gr
>     gnuradio/vocoder
>     gnuradio/pager
>     ../../../lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio
>     ../../../lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio/gr
>     ../../../lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio/vocoder
>     ../../../lib/python2.4/site-packages/gnuradio/pager
>
> This forces all of the paths to be searched for imports.
> It's ugly, though it works.
> I think a better solution (which I will try shortly) is to put in in
> each lib64 subdirectory (listed above) an __init__.py file that uses
> pkgutils.extend_path()
> to force modules to search both lib64 and lib directories in parallel
> for names.  I don't fully understand pkgutils.extend_path, but it seems
> to be designed for just this purpose.

Does this work? I tried adding the python header file, but it did not
work. Anyway I think the best solution is to install both the
extention modules and the scripts in the same folder (lib64), since
the way fedora installs python libs on fc6 is wrong. I have created a
patch that takes care of this, it should also work on i386.


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Trond Danielsen

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