Merge branch 'maint'

* maint:
  news: we'll remove AM_PROG_MKDIR in 1.14, not 1.13
  tests: give few vala tests more significant names
  vala tests: don't use the 'posix' profile, it's no longer supported
  news: fixup: bug#8847 is fixed in 1.12.6, not in 1.12.5
  news: document the fix for automake bug#10227
  tests: fix a spurious testsuite failure on Solaris
  python: make installed modules find by default on Debian and Ubuntu

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/m4/python.m4 b/m4/python.m4
index 50213a9c9..5d9d0579e 100644
--- a/m4/python.m4
+++ b/m4/python.m4
@@ -106,6 +106,25 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
     [am_cv_python_platform=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; sys.stdout.write(sys.platform)"`])
   AC_SUBST([PYTHON_PLATFORM], [$am_cv_python_platform])
 
+  # Just factor out some code duplication.
+  am_python_setup_sysconfig="\
+import sys
+# Prefer sysconfig over distutils.sysconfig, for better compatibility
+# with python 3.x.  See automake bug#10227.
+try:
+    import sysconfig
+except ImportError:
+    can_use_sysconfig = 0
+else:
+    can_use_sysconfig = 1
+# Can't use sysconfig in CPython 2.7, since it's broken in virtualenvs:
+# <https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/118>
+try:
+    from platform import python_implementation
+    if python_implementation() == 'CPython' and sys.version[[:3]] == '2.7':
+        can_use_sysconfig = 0
+except ImportError:
+    pass"
 
   dnl Set up 4 directories:
 
@@ -122,7 +141,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
      else
        am_py_prefix=$prefix
      fi
-     am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(0,0,prefix='$am_py_prefix'))" 2>/dev/null`
+     am_cv_python_pythondir=`$PYTHON -c "
+$am_python_setup_sysconfig
+if can_use_sysconfig:
+    sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('purelib', vars={'base':'$am_py_prefix'})
+else:
+    from distutils import sysconfig
+    sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(0, 0, prefix='$am_py_prefix')
+sys.stdout.write(sitedir)"`
      case $am_cv_python_pythondir in
      $am_py_prefix*)
        am__strip_prefix=`echo "$am_py_prefix" | sed 's|.|.|g'`
@@ -157,7 +183,14 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
      else
        am_py_exec_prefix=$exec_prefix
      fi
-     am_cv_python_pyexecdir=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; from distutils import sysconfig; sys.stdout.write(sysconfig.get_python_lib(1,0,prefix='$am_py_exec_prefix'))" 2>/dev/null`
+     am_cv_python_pyexecdir=`$PYTHON -c "
+$am_python_setup_sysconfig
+if can_use_sysconfig:
+    sitedir = sysconfig.get_path('platlib', vars={'platbase':'$am_py_prefix'})
+else:
+    from distutils import sysconfig
+    sitedir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(1, 0, prefix='$am_py_prefix')
+sys.stdout.write(sitedir)"`
      case $am_cv_python_pyexecdir in
      $am_py_exec_prefix*)
        am__strip_prefix=`echo "$am_py_exec_prefix" | sed 's|.|.|g'`