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 -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@veillard.com | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/