Hello, I'm maintaining a set of python modules that have this pattern of code for finding compiled extensions (this example is from the kineticstools package):
~~~ if platform.system() == "Windows": libfn = "tree_predict.dll" path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)) windowsLib = path + os.path.sep + libfn if os.path.exists(windowsLib): self._lib = np.ctypeslib.load_library(libfn, path) else: raise Exception("can't find tree_predict.dll") else: DLL_PATH = _getAbsPath("tree_predict.so") if os.path.exists(DLL_PATH): self._lib = np.ctypeslib.load_library("tree_predict.so", DLL_PATH) else: raise Exception("can't find tree_predict.so") ~~~ When the package is built and the architecture is renamed: I: dh_python2 fs:322: renaming tree_predict.so to tree_predict.x86_64-linux-gnu.so the upstream code breaks. What I've done in the past is patch it so that it searches for the extension the way we rename it (which I get using sysconfig.get_config_var('MULTIARCH')) as in the patch at http://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/pbh5tools.git/tree/debian/patches/multiarch-module-path.patch Is there a better way around this problem? Many thanks and regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name