[OE-core] [PATCH] python3: correct the multilib support patch

[Dan McGregor]

On 29 Jun 2016 9:44 a.m., "Randle, William C" <william.c.randle at intel.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 07:33 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 11:12 +0800, Li Zhou wrote:
>>>
>>> When python3 rebased its multilib patch, the hard coded "lib" path
>>> isn't really changed because of the rebasing's error, and cause
>>> phthon3's failure when running on 64bit platforms as below:
>>> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>>> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
>>> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
>>> Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding
>>> ImportError: No module named 'encodings'
>>>
>>> Here correct the rebasing error and solve this issue.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Li Zhou <li.zhou at windriver.com>
>>> ---
>>>  ...ython3-correct-the-multilib-support-patch.patch | 47
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3_3.5.1.bb      |  1 +
>>>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
>>>  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3/0001-python3
>>> -correct-the-multilib-support-patch.patch
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't we want to correct the "bad" patch rather than adding an
>> additional patch? Or did I misunderstand the problem?
>>
>> Also, are there some automated tests we should be adding to catch this
>> kind of problem? I'm a little worried none of our testing caught this.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Richard
>
>
> I would agree that since the original patch has not been accepted
upstream,  it would make the most sense to just regenerate it.
>
> In addition, there are a couple of other places in getpath.c that have a
hard coded "lib/". Have you verified those are correct as is? (I.e., ~line
706 'L:lib/pyhton00.zip"' and ~line 718 'L"lib/lib-dynload"'. Seems like
the second case should use code similar other palces lib-dynload is used in
the file that uses lib_python to build the path.)
>
>     -Bill

Fedora and others have similar patches. Have people checked them out?

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