new waf vs PYTHONDIR

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 01:28:17 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> I don't use PYTHONPATH
> 
> The old waf used to install python libraries in /usr/local/lib64/
> The new waf now installs things in /usr/loca/lib/
> 
> Is that a bug or feature?

I think it is a bug, but that is this years fashion.

In most cases one is symlinked to the other.

This part of the great Leonard Pottering ("I hate UNIX") push
to merge /bin, /sbin, usr/bin and /usr/sbin into one.  Sometimes
called "merged-usr".

Oddly, when I build ntpd from git head I get on Gentoo unstable:

Checking for python module 'gps' (ver >= num(3, 18))             :
3.25.1~dev PYSHEBANG                     :  /usr/bin/env python 
  PYTHONDIR                     :  /usr/lib/python3.13t/site-packages 
  PYTHONARCHDIR                 :
/usr/local/lib/python3.13t/site-packages 'configure' finished
successfully (3.055s)

PYTHONDIR is wrong.  user stuff is supposed to go in /usr/local, not
/usr. /usr/local/lib is for locally built stuff.  /usr/lib is for distro
packaged stuff.  This is all in the FHS:

https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html

FYI, the FHS is what Pottering wants to banish.

So, something broke...

RGDS
GARY
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