[issue15364] sysconfig confused by relative paths
Richard Oudkerk
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Jul 19 17:16:28 CEST 2012
Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> added the comment:
> I'd make get_config_var('srcdir') to be None for installed systems,
> because the source tree is not available there.
While playing with a version of the patch which returns None for non-source builds, I found that distutils.support._get_xxmodule_path() depends on get_config_var('srcdir') always returning a string:
def _get_xxmodule_path():
srcdir = sysconfig.get_config_var('srcdir')
candidates = [
os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'xxmodule.c'),
os.path.join(srcdir, 'Modules', 'xxmodule.c'),
os.path.join(srcdir, '..', '..', '..', 'Modules', 'xxmodule.c'),
]
for path in candidates:
if os.path.exists(path):
return path
It is easy enough to modify _get_xxmodule_path() to check for None. But this does suggest that returning None might break some currently working 3rd party code.
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