autoconf: how to get python_libdir correctly?

[Michael Hudson]

Gernot Hillier <ghillie at suse.de> writes:

> <veröffentlicht & per Mail versendet>

Really?  Don't see it.  Never mind.

> Michael Hudson wrote:
> 
> >>>> from distutils import sysconfig
> >>>> sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDEST")
> > '/usr/lib/python2.2'
> > 
> > is my best effort.
> 
> Hmmm... Unfortunately, LIBDEST gives me a wrong value here:
> 
> >>> from distutils import sysconfig
> >>> sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBDEST')
> ['/usr/lib/python2.2']

Odd.

> But thanks to your suggestion I read the docu of distutils.sysconfig and 
> found:
> 
> >>> sysconfig.get_python_lib()
> '/usr/lib64/python2.2/site-packages'
> >>> sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,1)
> '/usr/lib64/python2.2'
> 
> What about this? Any reasons not to use this one?

Looks OK to me.

> BTW: Any idea why LIBDEST is wrong?

No, that's very strange.

> I looked into pyconfig.h and it doesn't contain DEST or LIBDEST at
> all. Is it possible that python uses some (wrong) default in this
> case?

Python picks the variable out of the Makefile.  If I read the Makefile
correctly, it installs the Python standard library to $(LIBDEST),
which makes me wonder how your installation got installed...

Cheers,
M.

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