[issue6087] distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib gives surprising result when used with a Python build

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> I’m not sure yet whether this is a bug or a new feature, but when python runs from an
> uninstalled build, I would like paths to refer to the source directory, not the default
> configure prefix.

I need this fixed for packaging and it may affect venv too, so I will consider it a bug, fix it and wait for the python-dev response :)

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versions:  -Python 3.1

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