Python vs multilib module packaging question

[Joe Orton]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 01:25:34PM +0200, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:28:33AM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> > In subversion.spec I used:
> > 
> > %define pydir %(python -c 'from distutils import sysconfig; print
> > sysconfig.get_python_lib()')
> > 
> > to find the directory in which to package Python modules, but on x86_64 
> > this produces /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages rather than /usr/lib64, 
> > which is presumably wrong.
> > 
> > Is that a Python bug, or is there some other sysconfig.* thing which 
> > should be used to make this work properly?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143136
> 
> is related btw. and has a possible way of fixing the problem
> in one of the comments. Still no idea whether it's python or the spec files
> that need to be fixed.

Thanks.  Michael's fix there is to use sysconfig.get_python_lib(1)
rather than just sysconfig.get_python_lib().  I'll do that for
Subversion too unless anyone can tell me that it's a bad idea :)

joe