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

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