[Python-Dev] Debian wheezy, amd64: make not finding files for bz2 and other packages

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 05 May 2012 16:04:40 +0200
Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> Am 05.05.2012 15:39, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> > On Sat, 05 May 2012 15:31:24 +0200
> > Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> wrote:
> >> Am 05.05.2012 12:36, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> >>>
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:07:28 -0400
> >>> "Edward C. Jones" <edcjones at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>>> Filelist of package libbz2-dev in wheezy of architecture amd64
> >>>>
> >>>> /usr/include/bzlib.h
> >>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.a
> >>>> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so
> >>>> /usr/share/doc/libbz2-dev
> >>>
> >>> setup.py probably doesn't search in the right paths for libbz2.so. I
> >>> suggest you open a bug at http://bugs.python.org
> >>
> >> The issue might be caused by Debian's new multiarch libraries. In recent
> >> versions of Debian (and Ubuntu), 64bit and 32bit libraries can coexist
> >> on the same system.
> > 
> > It probably is, but I thought Barry had tackled that in setup.py :-)
> 
> The fix needs the dpkg-architecture program. As Tshepang pointed out it
> may not be available on Edward's box. I always install build-essential
> on all development boxes as it includes GCC, make and dpkg-dev.

Perhaps setup.py should detect that? It shouldn't be too hard to
parse /etc/debian_version in order to know whether the system is
multiarch-enabled. That would avoid confusing build failures.

Regards

Antoine.