[issue12246] create installation path if it's non-existent

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

I'm not sure I understand your confusion, but perhaps what you are missing is that we don't support installing 3rd party packages inside a source tree, only into an installed Python, and installing Python creates the site-packages directory in $prefix.

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