[Zope3-Users] Problem: "Could not locate Zope software installation!" - solution

[Martin Kudlvasr]

> Ronald L Chichester wrote:
> > This, of course, begs the question of some 64-bit compatibility issue.
>
> That is a possibility, but we do have a 64-bit Athalon running here used 
>   in daily development with no problems (running Ubuntu).

the problem is really 64 compatibility issue.
When I look into mkzopeinstance script:


***
for parts in [("src",), ("lib", "python"), ("Lib", "site-packages")]:
    d = os.path.join(swhome, *(parts + ("zope", "app", "appsetup")))
    if os.path.isdir(d):
        d = os.path.join(swhome, *parts)
        sys.path.insert(0, d)
        break
else:
    try:
        import zope.app.server
    except ImportError:
        print >>sys.stderr, "Could not locate Zope software
installation!"
        sys.exit(1)
***
this means that first of directories $PREFIX/src, $PREFIX/lib/python,
$PREFIX/Lib/site-packages (suffixed by zope/app/appsetup) is added to
sys.path

BUT !!! when compiled on 64 architecture, zope compiles its files into
$PREFIX/lib64 directory, so the mkzopeinstance cannot import
zope.app.server and fails.

I succesfully used:

***
for parts in [("src",), ("lib", "python"), ("lib64", "python"), ("Lib",
"site-packages")]:
***

3.2.0-final has the same problem

I please anybody competent to fix this.

Thank you

Martin Kudlvasr
-- 
------------------------------
Martin Kudlvasr
pINgVINO VERITAS