[SciPy-dev] Detection of fft libraries on 64 bit machines

[Neal Becker]

Travis Oliphant wrote:

> Neal Becker wrote:
> 
>>Nils Wagner wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I have installed the fftw rpm's (fftw, fftw-devel, fftw3, fftw3-devel)
>>>on a 64 bit machine (SuSE 9.3). The libraries are located
>>>in /usr/lib64
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>It's not just fftw.  ALL libraries are affected.  I already posted a
>>patch.  Twice.
>>  
>>
> 
> Neal,
> 
> The numpy and scipy rpms are generated automatically by python's
> distutils.  I'm not sure how to apply the spec file patch you provide,
> and I guess nobody else is either.
> 
> We appreciate your help, but are not sure how to use it.   If somebody
> could teach me how to alter how the rpms are built that would be
> helpful...
> 
> -Travis

Interesting.  I wonder if my fedora copy of distutils was patched to fix
this?  grep finds 2 occurances of lib64 in ...distutils/*.py