On Mar 29, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
There is a big problem with twisted on Fedora/Redhat multiarch. For example, x86_64.
The problem is that Fedora puts arch-independent (.py) code into a different directory than arch-dependent code.
Unfortunately, this doesn't quite work correctly with python's module search algorithm. [...] I realize the problem is with python module search, but it looks like a big effort fix the code.
In the thread on python-dev, I thought I saw a simple enough solution: On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:03 PM, 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 python_sitearch %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib(1)")}
%define python_sitelib %(%{__python} -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print get_python_lib()")}
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.
In any case, I don't see why twisted should do anything to fix this problem, it's for either Fedora or Python to fix. James