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

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 10:53:12AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Actually some help for how to replace it would be useful too as sysconfig is not an exact replacement for distutils.sysconfig. In particular get_python_lib doesn't exist, and I can't find an exact replacement. 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 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. Note it's used here: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/python/Makefile.am#L... (We do not -- and cannot -- use ordinary Python install mechanisms.) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit