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).
One solution would be to use the sysconfig module (not distutils.sysconfig), but that only works in Python 2.7 and 3.2 (not 3.0 or 3.1), so isn't really a starter. Hopefully someone who knows more about Python than I can help, as it's much nicer to have Python modules installed from one extra line in Makefile.am than have to add a whole extra setup.py and require a different tool (albeit one bundled with Python) to be used. (Actually, that is another idea: how about delegating to distutils, since it comes with every version of Python supported by automake?) -- http://rrt.sc3d.org
