[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D67890: [lldb] [cmake] Fix installing Python modules on systems using /usr/lib

[Haibo Huang via Phabricator via lldb-commits]

hhb added inline comments.


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Comment at: lldb/scripts/get_relative_lib_dir.py:26
     split_libdir = arch_specific_libdir.split(os.sep)
-    lib_re = re.compile(r"^lib.+$")
+    lib_re = re.compile(r"^lib.*$")
 
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mgorny wrote:
> hhb wrote:
> > mgorny wrote:
> > > hhb wrote:
> > > > If we go this way, should we always use LLDB_PYTHON_RELATIVE_LIBDIR in ScriptInterpreterPython.cpp, and add some code to make sure it is defined? Because all assumption of the path can be wrong.
> > > > 
> > > > After the change here, I think POSIX will always use LLDB_PYTHON_RELATIVE_LIBDIR. But for windows, the path is still hard coded to lib/site-packages.
> > > > 
> > > > (maybe finishSwigPythonLLDB.py / make_symlink() can also be updated to use os.path.relpath? )
> > > Actually, I think we can kill all this logic by simply passing `''` as prefix, as I did in the CMake part.
> > I'm not sure. On my machine:
> > 
> > $ python3
> > Python 3.6.8 (default, Jan  3 2019, 03:42:36)
> > [GCC 8.2.0] on linux
> > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > \>>> import distutils.sysconfig
> > \>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(True, False)
> > '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages'
> > \>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(True, False, '')
> > 'lib/python3/dist-packages'
> > \>>> distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(True, False, '/src/lib')
> > '/src/lib/lib/python3.6/site-packages'
> > 
> Hm, that's interesting. The documentation says:
> 
> > If 'prefix' is supplied, use it instead of sys.base_prefix or sys.base_exec_prefix -- i.e., ignore 'plat_specific'.
> 
> So apparently first arg being true is meaningless then. Maybe we should go for `get_python_lib(False, False, '')`?
Well I checked the code. plat_specific IS ignored. But it will test whether prefix "is default".

```
is_default_prefix = not prefix or os.path.normpath(prefix) in ('/usr', '/usr/local')
```

And do things differently based on that. Sigh..


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