[Python-Dev] Problem with module loading on multi-arch? (original) (raw)

Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 18 01:38:29 CET 2006

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

Neal Becker wrote:

Sorry, maybe I used confusing terminology.

A reference is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Python This is the current setup. For example, this is a standard macro used by Redhat in RPM SPEC files for python: _%define pythonsitearch %(%{python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import getpythonlib; print getpythonlib(1)")} _%define pythonsitelib %(%{python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import getpythonlib; print getpythonlib()")} Clearly this practice is widespread. It would seem that module search needs some modification to fully support it. Ah. That isn't supported at all, at the moment. Redhat should not be using it. Instead, there shouldn't be a difference between sitearch and sitelib.

x86_64 is multiarch. That means, we allow both i386 and x86_64 binaries to coexits. Is the proposal that python should not support this? That would be unfortunate.

I suspect is would not be that difficult to correctly support multiarch platforms. As it is, this usually works - but the example I gave above shows where it seems to break.

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