I haven't messed around with Python 3 recently, so decided to give it a whirl again. I cloned the trunk (cpython) and set about it. This is on an OpenSUSE 12.1 system. I configured like so:
./configure --prefix=/home/skipm/.linux-local and ran the usual "make ; make install". I'm a bit perplexed about how it is installed. Instead of installing shared objects in /home/skipm/.linux-local/lib/python3.4/lib-dynload they were installed in /home/skipm/.linux-local/lib64/python3.4/lib-dynload (note the "lib64" vs. "lib"). This would be fine, except sys.path doesn't include the "lib64" version of this path: % PYTHONPATH= PYTHONSTARTUP= ~/.linux-local/bin/python3.4 -S Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Python 3.4.0a0 (default:26200f535296, Oct 3 2012, 12:48:07) [GCC 4.4.6 [TWW]] on linux >>> import sys >>> sys.path ['', '', '/home/skipm/.linux-local/lib/python34.zip', '/home/skipm/.linux-local/lib/python3.4/', '/home/skipm/.linux-local/lib/python3.4/plat-linux', '/home/skipm/.linux-local/lib/lib-dynload'] I see the message about setting PYTHONHOME. (That happens to be bad advice as sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are identical in this case.) What I don't understand is why directories containing "lib64" are not in sys.path by default, given that that's where "make install" put things. GCC is as delivered by The Written Word. (This is a work computer. The powers that be settled on TWW awhile ago for packaging all open source software we use on Linux and Solaris, thus removing a headache from our support staff.) It is: % gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 [TWW] Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. The architecture looks like this: % uname -a Linux udesktop264 3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I don't see anything in the output of "./configure --help" which relates to 64-bit install directories, though I do see some lines in config.log about guessing the architecture. Some cursory googling didn't turn up any promising web pages, and I didn't find anything in the various documentation files in the repo related to building Python. Any suggestions about how to resolve this would be appreciated. Thx, Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
