[Distutils] problems on irix

[Pete J Shinners]

i am using the distutils that comes with the python2.0 release.
on irix there seems to be a problem with variable name expansion.
all the installations go to funky directories like this...

$platbase/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages
$base/include/python$py_version_short/$dist_name

this makes it kind of difficult, because i then have to go back
and cp -r these mean paths to where the install should have gone.

btw, my python is installed to /usr/local, so these paths should
be expanding to something like

/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages
/usr/local/include/python2.0

has this been fixed? can it be fixed soon?
thanks