Re: [PATCH] python3: correct the multilib support patch

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

On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 11:12 +0800, Li Zhou wrote:
> When python3 rebased its multilib patch, the hard coded "lib" path
> isn't really changed because of the rebasing's error, and cause
> phthon3's failure when running on 64bit platforms as below:
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
> ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
> 
> Here correct the rebasing error and solve this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zhou <li.zhou@windriver.com>
> ---
>  ...ython3-correct-the-multilib-support-patch.patch | 47
> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.1.bb      |  1 +
>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-python3
> -correct-the-multilib-support-patch.patch


Don't we want to correct the "bad" patch rather than adding an
additional patch? Or did I misunderstand the problem?

Also, are there some automated tests we should be adding to catch this
kind of problem? I'm a little worried none of our testing caught this.

Cheers,

Richard