the aclocal check is broken.
checking for python platform... linux2
+ printf '%s\n' 'configure:14520: checking for python script directory'
+ printf %s 'checking for python script directory... '
checking for python script directory... + test '' = set
+ echo 'from distutils import sysconfig; print
it seems that this change has caused some trouble in autotools
(m4.python maybe, but that is a wild guess)
i'll try to describe it in detail:
app that has suffered is hamster-applet [1]
when ./autogen.sh is run and autotools are called, python extension
module is detected wrongly:
checking for p
this is by design. in python2.5, the directory /usr/local/lib/python2.5
/site-packages was the standard site-packages of an default local python
installation (which goes into /usr/local). with the new behaviour,
locally installed packages installed with the "system" python go into
/usr/local/lib/py
