[New-bugs-announce] [issue21197] venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks

[Matthias Dahl]

New submission from Matthias Dahl:

Creating a new venv on a multilib system does not install an appropriate link from lib to lib64 or the other way around. Currently, venv creates a single lib dir, but everything installed with pip within the venv, will be installed to lib64/... instead while lib will remain empty. For some third party apps, this is confusing.

virtualenv, for example, installs a lib64 symlink to lib automatically. IMHO, more correctly would be a lib to lib64 symlink.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 215883
nosy: BinaryKhaos
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: venv does not create lib64 directory and appropriate symlinks
versions: Python 3.4

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