[Python-Dev] Debian wheezy, amd64: make not finding files for bz2 and other packages (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat May 5 16:13:11 CEST 2012

On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:04:40 +0200 Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:

Am 05.05.2012 15:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: > On Sat, 05 May 2012 15:31:24 +0200 > Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote: >> Am 05.05.2012 12:36, schrieb Antoine Pitrou: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:07:28 -0400 >>> "Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at comcast.net> wrote: >>>> Filelist of package libbz2-dev in wheezy of architecture amd64 >>>> >>>> /usr/include/bzlib.h >>>> /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/libbz2.a >>>> /usr/lib/x8664-linux-gnu/libbz2.so >>>> /usr/share/doc/libbz2-dev >>> >>> setup.py probably doesn't search in the right paths for libbz2.so. I >>> suggest you open a bug at http://bugs.python.org >> >> The issue might be caused by Debian's new multiarch libraries. In recent >> versions of Debian (and Ubuntu), 64bit and 32bit libraries can coexist >> on the same system. > > It probably is, but I thought Barry had tackled that in setup.py :-)

The fix needs the dpkg-architecture program. As Tshepang pointed out it may not be available on Edward's box. I always install build-essential on all development boxes as it includes GCC, make and dpkg-dev.

Perhaps setup.py should detect that? It shouldn't be too hard to parse /etc/debian_version in order to know whether the system is multiarch-enabled. That would avoid confusing build failures.

Regards

Antoine.

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