Jeremy Sanders wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Jeremy, didn't you get my last posting ? It is rather easy >> to find the Makefile since the config/ dir is stored in the >> same place as the rest of the Python std lib (provided the >> distros didn't munge that fact as well, like e.g. some >> which remove distutils from the std lib <grumble>). > > > Yes, we could just do something like > > os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.__file__), 'config', 'Makefile') > > to find the Makefile location (as long as os doesn't become built-in, > like sys, or ends up in a zip file). > > There's still the problem of working out where x86-64 non specfic things > should get installed in lib64 or lib. I don't see an easy answer there. > > It is a real shame that RedHat/Fedora didn't get this sorted before they > started distributing python on x86-64. I wonder what SuSE are doing with > lib/lib64?
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