Re: [PATCH 4/8] python: fix for libdir=/usr/lib64 case

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 22:10 +0800, Yu Ke wrote:
> python has several place hard code "lib" which breaks build
> when libdir=/usr/lib64. SUSE has a patch to fix this issue.
> 
> So this patch add the SUSE patch to address this issue
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yu Ke <ke.yu@intel.com>
[...]
> ++AC_SUBST(LIB)
> ++AC_MSG_CHECKING(LIB)
> ++case $ac_sys_system in
> ++Linux*)
> ++  # Test if the compiler is 64bit
> ++  echo 'int i;' > conftest.$ac_ext
> ++  python_cv_cc_64bit_output=no
> ++  if AC_TRY_EVAL(ac_compile); then
> ++    case `/usr/bin/file conftest.$ac_objext` in
> ++    *"ELF 64"*)
> ++      python_cv_cc_64bit_output=yes
> ++      ;;
> ++    esac
> ++  fi
> ++  rm -rf conftest*
> ++  ;;
> ++esac
> ++
> ++case $ARCH:$python_cv_cc_64bit_output in
> ++ppc64:yes | powerpc64:yes | s390x:yes | sparc64:yes | x86_64:yes)
> ++  LIB="lib64"
> ++  ;;
> ++*:*)
> ++  LIB="lib"
> ++  ;;
> ++esac
> ++AC_MSG_RESULT($LIB)
> + 

This patch is good apart from this bit. I think we need to be able to
pass in our own string to use here which we derive from the libdir
variable...

Cheers,

Richard