Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Use AM_PATH_PYTHON and python-config to detect Python configuration

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:02:26PM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > Using AM_PATH_PYTHON solves the site-packages directory problem. At least > in Ubuntu with Python 2.6 and later site-packages is renamed to dist-packages > and site-packages is not part of sys.path anymore. So installing the libvirt > Python bindings to site-packages renders them unusable, because they can be > imported from there without manually including site-packages into sys.path. > > AM_PATH_PYTHON detects the correct site-packages/dist-packages directory. > > python-config --includes gives the correct include path for the Python header > files. The old probing code stays there as fallback mechanism. > > * configure.in: use AM_PATH_PYTHON and python-config > * python/Makefile.am: remove -I because PYTHON_INCLUDES contains it now  Hum, that configuration code is inherited from libxml2, and I could not rely on AM_PATH_PYTHON being present, as it broke on older platforms. But for libvirt and by now I guess this approach is fine,  ACK Daniel