[Pypgsql-users] Re: Buliding on SuSE 8 for x86_64 (AMD Opteron)

[Paul K. <ko...@cm...>]

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 17:12, Paul Komarek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> SuSE 8 for x86_64 has /usr/lib for 32 bit stuff, and /usr/lib64 for 64
> bit stuff.  /usr/bin/python is 64 bit.  There is /usr/lib64/libpq.so.3
> and /usr/lib/libpq.so.2.  You can imagine the mess this makes for
> distutils.
> 
> I sucessfully compiled and installed pyPgSQL 2.4.0 from the source
> tarball.  I made the following customizations:
> 
> 1) Using the CUSTOM stuff in setup.py, set library_dirs = ["/usr/lib64",
> "/usr/lib"]
> 
> 2) After installing with python setup.py instal, stuff gets installed in
> /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages and you are warned this isn't in the
> search path.  Simply cp -a /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/pyPgSQL to
> /usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages/.
> 
> I figure distutils may be able to do this kind of thing automatically.
> Today is the first time I looked into distutils, and I'm not going to
> mess around with fancy automatic stuff.
> 
> egenix mxDateTime also gave me some grief because their configuration
> isn't documented and isn't as nice as yours.  To make it work, I edited
> mxSetup.py (which I think gets copied around, so modify all copies you
> find in the tarball before building).  The change is again simple:
> 
> 1) search for /usr/local/lib in mxSetup.py
> 2) prepend '/usr/local/lib64' and '/usr/lib64' to the default library
> list.
> 
> After building and installing, cp -a /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/mx
> /usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages.
> 
> To make this email easier to find, I'll include the error messages you
> get if you don't do this stuff:
> 
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.2.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find /lib/libc.so.6
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> The same errors occur for egenix-mx-base (for which I didn't find a good
> email list to post this to).
> 
> Note that I am not subscribed to this list.  If someone feels the need
> to get my attention, you can email me at ko...@cm....
> 
> -Paul Komarek

I should mention that there's a /lib in the egenix mxSetup.py library
lists that needs to be preceded by /lib64, too.

-Paul Komarek