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

[Kai Sterker]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:

>  >  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).
>
>  I guess one simple fix could be to add lib64 to the search path
>  (before lib) in configure.in.

That's what I did for now, as it seemed the least intrusive way of
addressing this issue.

> It might also be worth investigating
>  whether automake nowadays provides better macros for finding Python
>  lib and dependencies.

Nope. It can check for the interpreter (version) and site-packages
directory, but doesn't contain any macros for libpython, which we need
as well.


Something else worth looking into might be the distutils module that
comes with python 2 and above (AFAIK). Especially distutils.sysconfig
contains a lot of information about the python installation, from
which we might be able to extract all the data we need. That needs a
lot more testing, though, to see if it is consistent across platforms.
So it's nothing I would want to introduce into v0.3 right now.

Kai