Ubuntu
python2.7 package

sysconfig paths are incorrect

Bug #1739628 reported by Timmmm
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This bug affects 3 people
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python2.7 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

On Ubuntu 17.10:

$ ls /usr/include/python2.7
abstract.h code.h funcobject.h marshal.h pgenheaders.h pymem.h
....
$ ls /usr/local/include/python2.7
ls: cannot access '/usr/local/include/python2.7': No such file or directory
$ python -c "import sysconfig; print(sysconfig.get_path('include'))"
/usr/local/include/python2.7

Definitely wrong.

Python is such a massive pain to integrate with - I actually switched from CMake's FindPythonLibs() which is heuristic-based and very unreliable to sysconfig - "surely python itself knows where it is installed?" I thought. Ha. Of course not. /rant

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in python2.7 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Steven Clarkson (sclarkson) wrote :

I've been using this as a workaround.

from distutils.sysconfig
print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_inc())

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Alex Coplan (alecop) wrote :

FWIW I can reproduce this on Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, and 22.04 and on multiple architectures (x86_64 and aarch64).

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