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

[Jim Washington]

Martin Kudlvasr wrote:
>> 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.
>
>   
This has been reported to the collector:

http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope3-dev/528

My (local) fix was to make a symlink, lib64->lib, in the instance 
directory.  This also works.

-Jim Washington