[Libguestfs] distutils use in hivex libdnet libnbd (and more) [was: Re: Help needed triaging build failures without distutils]

[Miro Hrončok]

On 24. 10. 22 15:14, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Original code:
> 
>    $ python3 -c 'import distutils.sysconfig; print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0));'
>    /usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages
> 
> Potential replacement:
> 
>    $ python3 -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path("platlib"));'
>    /usr/local/lib64/python3.11/site-packages

That is a correct replacement. It will return the same value in rpmbuild 
environment.

> Maybe the original code was wrong, but I guess we don't want to
> install site packages in /usr/local when running under RPM at least.

$ python3 -c 'import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path("platlib"));'
/usr/local/lib64/python3.11/site-packages

$ RPM_BUILD_ROOT=/ python3 -c 'import sysconfig; 
print(sysconfig.get_path("platlib"));'
/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages


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