Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment:
The current patch should be fine, although it is IMHO not the long-term
solution. For installed python's get_config_var('srcdir') still lies, but now
at least returns slightly more sane path.
As I noted before the real problem is that it is not clear which config_vars
are usable in which situations. One example is 'srcdir': this value is only
useful in the build tree and there currently is no clean way to signal that you
are retrieving a value that is not useful. Another example is 'RUNSHARED',
that's also only useable when building python.
I'm not sure what the right solution for the larger issue is. It might be good
enough to document generally useful config_vars and warn that other's might
exist but might not be safe to use, on the other hand it might be better to
explicitly reduce the set of config_vars to something sane (and document which
those are and when they can be used)
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