[Distutils] fwd: Distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib() always returns absolute path in win32.

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> De-HTMLifying...
>  ...
> 
>  I browsed the bug and patch managers and didn't see any patches or
>  bug reports matching what I believe to be a bug in the
>  get_python_lib() function in the distutils sysconfig.py file in the
>  win32 version of Python 2.2.2.  When os.name == "nt" and sys.version
>  > 2.2, get_python_lib() always returns the absolute path when the
>  plat_specific argument is true.  Maybe I'm showing my ignorance but
>  I'm guessing that get_python_lib(1,0,'') should return the relative
>  path as it does for all the other cases.

I suppose this is for Thomas Heller to answer. Perhaps the
bdist_wininst command relies on this.

Why is it relevant whether get_python_lib() returns a
relative or an absolute path ?

>  ...
> 
> *** sysconfig.py~       Tue Oct  8 19:46:04 2002
> --- sysconfig.py        Mon Nov 25 11:05:02 2002
> ***************
> *** 110,116 ****
>               if sys.version < "2.2":
>                   return prefix
>               else:
> !                 return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
>   
>       elif os.name == "mac":
>           if plat_specific:
> --- 110,116 ----
>               if sys.version < "2.2":
>                   return prefix
>               else:
> !                 return os.path.join(prefix, "Lib", "site-packages")
>   
>       elif os.name == "mac":
>           if plat_specific:
> 
> At the start of this function, there are the lines:
> 
>     if prefix is None:
>         prefix = plat_specific and EXEC_PREFIX or PREFIX
> 
> So using PREFIX certainly looks incorrect; 'prefix' uses EXEC_PREFIX
> or PREFIX as appropriate.  Can someone on NT please verify?
> 
> Just after the branch for os.name == "mac", the OS/2 code
> also uses PREFIX:
> 
>     elif os.name == "os2":
>         if standard_lib:
>             return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib")
>         else:
>             return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
> 
> Should this be fixed, too?
> 
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> expresses very well.
>       -- Gordon McMillan, 6 Jan 2000
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