GNU bug report logs - #10227
Python installation fails for Python 3

Previous Next

Full log

Message #8 received at 10227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Roumen Petrov <bugtrack <at> roumenpetrov.info>
To: 10227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10227: Python installation fails for Python 3
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:16:37 +0200

Reuben Thomas wrote:
> The code currently used to get the python package directory is wrong
> for Python 3:
>    
>>>> from distutils import sysconfig; print (sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,'/usr/local'))/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages
>>>>          
> is wrong (should be /usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages). Now, in
> some sense this must be right (since the path is returned by
> sysconfig), but the path produced
> (/usr/local/lib/python3/dist-packages) is not searched by my Ubuntu
> system's installed Python. If instead of automake I install the same
> files with distutils (using a suitable setup.py), then the files are
> installed in the right place (/usr/local/lib/python3.2/dist-packages).
>    
It seems to me this is vendor bug as the right place is site-packages, 
see PEP 370.

A cannot reproduce cut of version with "python" build from original 
sources, i.e. without extra patches :
2.6. 2.7 3.2 return .../pythonX.Y/site-packages


[SNIP]

Roumen

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.