[New-bugs-announce] [issue13803] Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness in the directory name

[Jesús Cea Avión]

New submission from Jesús Cea Avión <jcea at jcea.es>:

When compiling modules under Solaris, distutils generates directories like "build/lib.solaris-2.10-i86pc-3.2". The "i86pc" part is the same both in 32 and 64 bits.

So when building 32 and 64 bit C code, the binaries are mixed and the best result you can get is something like:

"""
ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: /home/pybsddb/build/lib.solaris-2.10-i86pc-2.7/bsddb3/_pybsddb.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
"""

In other platforms, bitness is correctly detected and included in the directory name.

Since Solaris is explicitly managed in the sourcecode ("distutils.util.get_platform()"), adding "platform.architecture()[0]" in the directory name seems trivial.

I think this patch should be applied to 2.6 and 3.1, unless they are open only for security fixes.

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
keywords: easy
messages: 151427
nosy: eric.araujo, jcea, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Under Solaris, distutils doesn't include bitness in the directory name
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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