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

John Ellson ellson at research.att.com
Wed Mar 8 02:51:09 UTC 2006


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 gst/Makefile.am   it needs "pygstdir = $(pkgpyexecdir)" instead of 
"pygstdir = $(pkgpythondir)"

I've attached a patch for this and a patch to the .spec to apply that patch.

John


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