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--- Begin Message ---Package: automake1.10 Version: 1:1.10.1-3 Severity: serious ++ /usr/bin/python -c 'from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='\''${prefix}'\'')' this comes from: /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/python.m4: AC_SUBST([PYTHON_PREFIX], ['${prefix}']) AC_SUBST([PYTHON_EXEC_PREFIX], ['${exec_prefix}']) ... [am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c "from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$PYTHON_PREFIX')" 2>/dev/null || echo "$PYTHON_PREFIX/lib/python$PYTHON_VERSION/site-packages"`]) the expanded $prefix has to be passed to the python -c command. so as long as the fallback points to the correct location, all is ok. For python2.6 we will use dist-packages instead of site-packages, so the fallback is wrong. same in automake-1.9
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--- Begin Message ---Ralf Wildenhues schrieb: > Hello Matthias, > > * Matthias Klose wrote on Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:13:24AM CEST: >> '${prefix}' and '${exec_prefix}' are passed unexpanded to get_python_lib()), >> and >> the macro then defaults to the hardcoded alternative case. The patch passes >> the >> real path names to get_python_lib(), and only for the case, where the prefix >> argument was specified on the command line (the case for a missing prefix >> argument is handled inside the get_python_lib() function). >> >> tested the macro with python versions 2.0 up to trunk, and the 3.0 and 3.1 >> branches. > > Thanks for the bug report and patch. The way I read "info Automake > Python", the non-expanded '${prefix}' and '${exec_prefix}' were done > on purpose. Now, I'm not a python expert, nor have I worked much with > the Automake support code for python (except for accepting a patch into > the git tree that adds python 3.0 support). Can you describe or provide > an example that is fixed with your patch and broken without, and look > over the above-mentioned section in the manual, to see whether it still > describes the situation accurately with your patch? thanks for the pointer. I think the macro does work as designed, but I didn't expect the macro always passing the prefix= argument (and the macro maybe makes the assumption that the value passed is not checked/interpreted). So my bad on this assumption. Another (unrelated) issue with this macro is that it doesn't use the site directory of the python interpreter that it is configured for. Assume PYTHON=/opt/bin/python2.5 configure --prefix=/foo installs into /foo/lib/python2.5/site-packages, which is not on sys.path of the python2.5 in /opt/bin. closing the report, maybe address the unrelated issue upstream. Matthias
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