distutils ignores configure's --includedir

[josephwinston]

BPO	1019715
Nosy	@orsenthil, @matejcik, @tarekziade, @akitada
Superseder	bpo-858809: Use directories from configure rather than hardcoded

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assignee = 'https://github.com/tarekziade'
closed_at = <Date 2009-09-14.13:11:09.529>
created_at = <Date 2004-08-31.14:37:25.000>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = "distutils ignores configure's --includedir"
updated_at = <Date 2010-08-11.05:49:28.872>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/josephwinston'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2010-08-11.05:49:28.872>
actor = 'eric.araujo'
assignee = 'tarek'
closed = True
closed_date = <Date 2009-09-14.13:11:09.529>
closer = 'orsenthil'
components = ['Distutils']
creation = <Date 2004-08-31.14:37:25.000>
creator = 'josephwinston'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 1019715
keywords = []
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messages = ['60561', '81098', '92542', '92608']
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pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'duplicate'
stage = None
status = 'closed'
superseder = '858809'
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue1019715'
versions = ['Python 2.6', 'Python 3.0', 'Python 3.1', 'Python 2.7']

[josephwinston]

1. configure and build python using the --includedir
   option. For example:

$ configure --prefix=/TANGO/3/rel
--includedir=/TANGO/3/rel/inc

2. Run

$ make install

3. Notice that the include files are placed in
   /TANGO/3/rel/include not /TANGO/3/rel/inc.

4. Verify with

$ python -c 'from distutils.sysconfig import *;print
get_python_inc()

5. The problem is that get_python_inc() hard codes the
   include file path to use the name "include"

6. Other programs using distutils will fail since the
   INSTALL_SCHEMES found in install.py also have the name
   "include" hard coded.

7. Suggested fix would be to use --includedir to
   calculate the include path used by distutils.

[akitada]

I'm having the same problem.
This is a real headache, especially on systems that
run both 32-bit and 64-bit apps, where I often see
"lib64", "include64" and "bin64".

In my opinion, lib, include and bin shouldn't be hard-coded in anywhere.

Note that these hard-coded paths are found in other places, too.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue1294959 for further detials.

[akitada]

I think this is duplicate of bpo-858809.

[orsenthil]

Yes, this is a duplicate of bpo-858809 and tarek is assigned to that
one too.