Need help identifying a 64bit specific problem with gstreamer08-python in extras-development

[John Ellson]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> Why does the 32bit package have
> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/gst/__init__.py
>
> while the 64bit package does NOT have
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gst/__init__.py
>
>
> This is the last issue keeping istanbul from building again in the
> development tree.
> istanbul is the only Extras package I know of that uses the
> gstreamer08-python package
>
> Can someone with 64bit hardware PLEASE figure out what is wrong with
> the gstreamer08-python specfile which is preventing
> usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gst/__init__.py
> from being packaged
>
> If noone with 64bit hardware can help me figure this out and get
> gstreamer08-python patched I'm going to forced to use excludearch in
> the instabul package to appease the growing horde of people giving me
> crap about istanbul not being available for fc5 release. I'd like to
> avoid doing that, but without people with 64bit hardware to run test
> builds of gstreamer08-python on their systems I'm doomed to failure.
>
> What I desperately, and I mean ABC's housewife brand of desperate, is
> for people with 64bit hardware and a reasonable ability to grok
> specfiles, to do local mock builds of gstreamer08-python making some
> specfile modifications to the gstreamer08-python spec file and to get
> patch to me with a patch to the spec file that correctly packages the
> /usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gst/__init__.py*  files.
>
> For reference this issue showed up right before gstreamer08 was moved
> out of Core, when the package in question was still gstreamer-python.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179624
>
> -jef
>
>   
In configure, the command:
    $PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print 
sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX')"
is returning (with PYTHON_PREFIX='/usr'):
    /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages

Perhaps this is a python bug?

Jonh