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

[John Ellson <ellson research att com>]

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


--- gst/Makefile.in.orig	2006-03-07 21:36:10.000000000 -0500
+++ gst/Makefile.in	2006-03-07 21:36:47.000000000 -0500
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
 common_cflags = $(PYGTK_CFLAGS) $(GST_CFLAGS) $(PYGST_CFLAGS) -fno-strict-aliasing
 common_libadd = $(GST_LIBS)
 common_ldflags = -module -avoid-version
-pygstdir = $(pkgpythondir)
+pygstdir = $(pkgpyexecdir)
 pygst_PYTHON = __init__.py
 pygstexecdir = $(pkgpyexecdir)
 pygstexec_LTLIBRARIES = _gst.la $(interface_lib) $(play_lib)

--- gstreamer08-python.spec.orig	2006-03-07 21:45:24.000000000 -0500
+++ gstreamer08-python.spec	2006-03-07 21:43:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 License:        LGPL
 URL:            http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/
 Source:         http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-python/gst-python-%{version}.tar.bz2
+Patch1:		gst_lib64.patch
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
 Requires:       python >= 2
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n gst-python-%{version}
+%patch1 -p0
 
 %build
 # the "docs" were built when disting the tarball, so we don't need to