https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/m4/guestfs-python.m4

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.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 11:27:47AM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Hey Pythonistas. > > The Python standard library distutils module will be removed from Python 3.12+ > > https://peps.python.org/pep-0632/ Annoying, but OK ... > As preparatory work, we build all python packages in a Copr repository > with Python 3.11 sans distutils: > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils/ > > I've rebuilt all the failed builds again and also in a control-group copr: > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-with-distutils/ > > 250 packages that failed to build without distuils but succeeded > with distutils need to be examined and categorized into various > different groups: > > - package uses distutils only if sys.version_info < (3, 12) > -- this is OK but still fails here > - package uses distutils unconditionally and the package needs to be fixed > - package uses another package that uses distutils unconditionally > and the dependency needs to be fixed > > I suspect most of the packages will fail to build with Python 3.12 > (planned for Fedora 39, change proposal TBD). The python3-setutpools > package provides a distutils module [^1], so sometimes "simply" > adding BuildRequires: python3-setuptools might workaround the > problem. ... > rjones hivex libdnet libnbd I think your testing methodology might have been wrong because we use distutils in other packages that I maintain, notably: https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/m4/guestfs-python.m4 I'm not sure what could have happened here. The RPM would have failed to build if the Python bindings had been ./configure-d out. The link shows libguestfs as "not build yet / Disabled": https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils... but then there's a build which succeeded: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python-without-distutils... and it has Python bindings. (The logs of the build don't seem to be available.) Anyway I'll see if I can fix this upstream as requested. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top