.. Ross Patterson's Blog imported post, created by `$ ./bin/rfc822-to-post` on Mar 15, 2021.

.. meta::
   :description: How to help extensions built with easy_install find Debian/Ubuntu multi-arch libraries.
   :keywords: Plone, Zope

.. post:: Oct 26, 2011
   :tags: Plone, Zope
   :author: Ross Patterson
   :redirect:  @@redirect-to-uuid/72c01bca-447a-496e-a401-c1b6c2a9ce2b

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Making easy_install play nicely with multi-arch
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    How to help extensions built with easy_install find Debian/Ubuntu multi-arch libraries.

The poorly documented ``~/.pydistutils.cfg`` allows setting defaults for command-line arguments to ``distutils`` ``setup.py`` commands such as ``python setup.py build_ext --library-dirs``.  Use this to get ``easy_install`` to build eggs with extension modules that need to find libaries on ``multi-arch`` systems like Ubuntu and Debian.  Just add the following two lines to ``~/.pydistutils.cfg``::

    [build_ext]
    library_dirs = /usr/lib:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu:/usr/local/lib
 

.. update:: Oct 26, 2011

   Imported from Plone on Mar 15, 2021.  The date for this update is the last
   modified date in Plone.