python (3.10) dirs

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Jan Rękorajski wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 
> > After recent python3.10 changes meson started to use /usr/share for
> > purelib, but automake's pythondir is broken now:
> > 
> > pythondir (platform-indepdendent) is wrong:
> > 
> > $ python2 -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='/usr'))"
> > /usr/share/python2.7/site-packages
> > 
> > $ python3 -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='/usr'))"
> > /usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages
> > 
> > pyexecdir is OK:
> > 
> > $ python2 -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0,prefix='/usr'))"
> > /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages
> > 
> > $ python3 -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0,prefix='/usr'))"
> > /usr/lib64/python3.10/site-packages
> 
> What package version do you have? Python3 shows /usr/share for me:
> 
> $ python3 -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='/usr'))" ; echo ; rpm -q python3
> <string>:1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils package is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.12. Use setuptools or check PEP 632 for potential alternatives
> <string>:1: DeprecationWarning: The distutils.sysconfig module is deprecated, use sysconfig instead
> /usr/share/python3.10/site-packages
> python3-3.10.4-5.x86_64
> 
> On a side note, distutils is deprecated...

The problematic dir seems to be coming from /usr/share/python3.10/site-packages/distutils-precedence.pth
from python3-setuptools-62.0.0-1.noarch. Plain python should return 'share' there.

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