The platform string which is build by get_platform() doesnt make much sense. Therefore I provide here a patch which brings up a better string. (eg. for AIX 4.3 -> aix-4.3 not aix-3-XXXXXXXXXXXX , machine seems to be a hardware id ? ) kind regards Rene Liebscher diff -BurN --minimal --exclude=*.pyc distutils.orig/distutils/util.py distutils.patchedx/distutils/util.py --- distutils.orig/distutils/util.py Mon Oct 16 11:37:39 2000 +++ distutils.patchedx/distutils/util.py Wed Nov 15 16:21:24 2000 @@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ # fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation elif osname[:4] == "irix": # could be "irix64"! return "%s-%s" % (osname, release) + elif osname[:3] == "aix": + return "%s-%s.%s" % (osname, version, release) return "%s-%s-%s" % (osname, release, machine)