Re: [Adonthell-general] Building adonthell on 64 bits Fedora

[Kai Sterker]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Mathieu Bridon <address@hidden> wrote:

>  The package for adonthell is being refused as it doesn't build on 64
>  bits (I couldn't try it myself as I do not have a 64 bits machine).
>
>  The reason is that the configure script can't find python. In fact, it
>  is searching for it in /usr/lib.
>
>  I don't know how it is in other distributions, but in Fedora, 64bits
>  libraries are stored in /usr/lib64 (as a way to install both 64 and 32
>  bits libraries).

That's different with Debian/Ubuntu, so I didn't run into that before.
I do believe that SuSE also uses lib64, though.

I guess one simple fix could be to add lib64 to the search path
(before lib) in configure.in. It might also be worth investigating
whether automake nowadays provides better macros for finding Python
lib and dependencies. v0.4 would also benefit from that, as its
basically uses the same code in configure.in.


>  Is there a reason why it is hardcoded? Or could you fix it for next
>  release?

That should get fixed, of course. Since one purpose of v0.3.5 is to
keep Waste's Edge running on current distros. And since 64bit is
getting more widespread these days (using 64bit Ubuntu myself), it's
definitely something to look into.


>  PS: btw, if you want to check their status for inclusion, here are the
>  links to the entries in Fedora bugzilla:
>  adonthell: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441411
>  wastesedge: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441415

Nice. And once again, thanks for all the work you're investing in this :-).

Kai