[Commit-gnuradio] r3544 - gnuradio/trunk

[eb]

Author: eb
Date: 2006-09-15 20:14:47 -0600 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 3544

Modified:
   gnuradio/trunk/README
Log:
Added note about how to work around Fedora Core PYTHONPATH weirdness on X86_64.
Closed ticket:39.


Modified: gnuradio/trunk/README
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--- gnuradio/trunk/README       2006-09-14 21:30:35 UTC (rev 3543)
+++ gnuradio/trunk/README       2006-09-16 02:14:47 UTC (rev 3544)
@@ -196,7 +196,16 @@
 
 You may want to add this to your ~/.bash_profile
 
+Note that on Fedora Core 4 and 5 when running on X86_64 machines,
+python is shippped with a strange (wrong) configuration that requires
+you to add both the lib64 and lib paths to your PYTHONPATH.
+E.g.,
 
+  $ export 
PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib64/python2.4/site-packages:/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages
+
+[Don't complain to us, complain to the Fedora Core packagers.]
+
+
 Another handy trick if for example your fftw includes and libs are
 installed in, say ~/local/include and ~/local/lib, instead of
 /usr/local is this: