[Twisted-Python] 64bit Installation Problems
Scott Lamb
slamb at slamb.org
Thu Apr 5 12:59:03 MDT 2007
*grumble* *grumble* I responded to this same thread on buildbot-devel
yesterday. <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?
thread_name=4613203A.1040500%40mail.mew.co.jp&forum_name=buildbot-
devel> Please don't post the same topic separately to multiple lists.
On Apr 4, 2007, at 3:34 AM, glyph at divmod.com wrote:
> This is what I do for Twisted *development*, but for deployment, it
> is suggested to build packages for your OS and have them managed by
> your package manager. The issue Tim is describing makes it sound
> like it would be difficult to build those packages for 64bit centOS.
>
> It sounds like this is simply a bug in either Twisted or
> distutils. I've had similar issues in the past, but I rarely use
> 64bit OSes so I assumed they were personal misconfigurations. Tim,
> if you could track down this issue further and report a bug in our
> tracker (if it's a Twisted issue) I'd be much obliged.
>
> You may discover it's a bug in Python which has been fixed in a
> version later than 2.3, in which case you are likely out of luck -
> you might just have to upgrade to a more recent Python version.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062462.html
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062548.html
Apparently there's disagreement between how RedHat installs Python on
x86_64 and how the Python people designed it to be installed.
Hopefully one of them will bend eventually; until then I just install
all of the twisted stuff into the arch-dependent directory.
(This has the unfortunate disadvantage that you need to rebuild .rpms
like python-twisted-web on each architecture, even though they
contain no architecture-specific code. For that reason I hope
RedHat's way wins out.)
I have source RPMs that do this at <http://rosalyn.dyn.slamb.org/yum/
centos4/SRPMS/>, should anyone be interested. I gave quick build
instructions in the buildbot-devel thread linked above.
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Scott Lamb <http://www.slamb.org/>
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