PYTHONPATH follies

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal, you wrote this:

  Some/many OS distros won't find our installed python libraries.
  Your shell will need something like this:
    export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
  CentOS 6 is using python 2.6
    export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
  (I put it in my .bashrc)

I believe I've traced this to a minor bug in waf.  See

https://github.com/waf-project/waf/issues/1897

If my diagnosis is correct, you'll find that the unaltered PYTHONPATH
on platforms where you have this problem is pointing at something like
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages - please confirm.

Thomas is usually pretty good about fixing this sort of thing quickly.
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