Python vs multilib module packaging question

[Pekka Pietikainen]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:28:33AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> In subversion.spec I used:
> 
> %define pydir %(python -c 'from distutils import sysconfig; print
> sysconfig.get_python_lib()')
> 
> to find the directory in which to package Python modules, but on x86_64 
> this produces /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages rather than /usr/lib64, 
> which is presumably wrong.
> 
> Is that a Python bug, or is there some other sysconfig.* thing which 
> should be used to make this work properly?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143136

is related btw. and has a possible way of fixing the problem
in one of the comments. Still no idea whether it's python or the spec files
that need to be fixed.

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Pekka Pietikainen