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authoreb <eb@221aa14e-8319-0410-a670-987f0aec2ac5>2006-09-16 02:14:47 +0000
committereb <eb@221aa14e-8319-0410-a670-987f0aec2ac5>2006-09-16 02:14:47 +0000
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Added note about how to work around Fedora Core PYTHONPATH weirdness on X86_64.
Closed ticket:39. git-svn-id: http://gnuradio.org/svn/gnuradio/trunk@3544 221aa14e-8319-0410-a670-987f0aec2ac5
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@@ -196,6 +196,15 @@ installed version of python.
You may want to add this to your ~/.bash_profile
+Note that on Fedora Core 4 and 5 when running on X86_64 machines,
+python is shippped with a strange (wrong) configuration that requires
+you to add both the lib64 and lib paths to your PYTHONPATH.
+E.g.,
+
+ $ export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
+
+[Don't complain to us, complain to the Fedora Core packagers.]
+
Another handy trick if for example your fftw includes and libs are
installed in, say ~/local/include and ~/local/lib, instead of