Hello Toby!
I have myself been through a fairly painful packaging marathon
(cross-compiling matlab MEX files from linux to windows), so I understand
how annoying it can be. Since Ubuntu <= 13.04 use by default python 2,
solution (2) seems perfectly reasonable to me.
I fear that I can't really help on that architectural problem, I'm not the
most knowledgeable person when it comes to build systems :)
Good luck!
Philippe
2013/12/16 Toby St Clere Smithe <m...@tsmithe.net>
> Hi all,
>
> I've made a fair amount of headway getting a binary package built for
> PyViennaCL on Ubuntu (and thus Debian). If anyone is using an i386
> system (not amd64 yet!) on Ubuntu trusty (14.04), they can test it out,
> using the PPA at [1].
>
> But herein lies the problem. I've used the build tools available on the
> most recent versions of Debian and Ubuntu, which turn out to be
> incompatible with the most common versions of Debian and Ubuntu (ie,
> Ubuntu 12.04 to 13.04 inclusive), because of changes in the Python 3
> packaging. So I have a number of options:
>
> 1. (easiest) not make a binary package for Ubuntu / Debian versions
> older than Ubuntu 13.10;
> 2. (easy) not target Python 3 on versions older than 13.10;
> 3. (harder) write custom packaging for those older versions.
>
> I'm leaning towards option (2), since then PyViennaCL would be mostly
> available, and since Python 2 still seems more popular than Python 3
> anyway.
>
> The only other remaining hurdle (for binary packages on Ubuntu and
> Debian) is the fact that the Ubuntu amd64 build daemons seem unable to
> cope with the memory requirements of my sources as they are at the
> moment -- on i386, because of the smaller address space, this seems not
> to be a problem.
>
> I had planned anyway to split up the sources for my next release so that
> they were less burdensome on memory, but I suspect I'll have to do this
> sooner than then -- unless I hear otherwise from one of the archive
> administrators.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Toby
>
>
>
>
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