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Re: Replace uses of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-01-24T21:05:05Z
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Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Also note that python-config is itself a Python script that uses 
> sysconfig and includes code like this:

>      elif opt in ('--includes', '--cflags'):
>          flags = ['-I' + sysconfig.get_path('include'),
>                   '-I' + sysconfig.get_path('platinclude')]

> So this would just do the same thing we are already doing anyway.

It used to look like that, but at least in my 3.6.8 installation
on RHEL8, it's been rewritten to be a shell script that doesn't
depend on sysconfig at all.

The result is sufficiently bletcherous that you'd have thought
they'd reconsider getting rid of sysconfig :-(.  Also, it
definitely won't work on Windows.

			regards, tom lane

Commits

  1. Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig, take 2.

  2. Temporarily add some information about python include paths to configure.

  3. Revert "Make configure prefer python3 to plain python."

  4. Make configure prefer python3 to plain python.

  5. Replace use of deprecated Python module distutils.sysconfig