Re: virtualenv/pip failure, how to debug/fix?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:24:10PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:26:23AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> > 
> > I have succeeded, by doing
> > 
> > 1) update to the python3.9  you just committed
> > 
> > 2) adding this symlink instead my venv
> > 
> >    lrwxr-xr-x  1 gdt  wheel  48 Dec 30 10:21 lib/python3.9/_sysconfigdata__netbsd9_.py -> /usr/pkg/lib/python3.9/_sysconfigdata_netbsd9.py
> 
> _distutils_system_mod has:
> 
>     _sysconfig_name_tmpl='_sysconfigdata_{platform}',
> 
> and I thought platform would be expanded to netbsd9, and I had thought
> that pip uses setuptools and thus this file.

The corresponding patch for old-style distutils is in
e.g. lang/python310/patches/patch-Lib_sysconfig.py :

--- Lib/sysconfig.py.orig       2021-07-10 00:51:07.000000000 +0000
+++ Lib/sysconfig.py
@@ -394,16 +394,13 @@ def get_makefile_filename():
         config_dir_name = f'config-{_PY_VERSION_SHORT}{sys.abiflags}'
     else:
         config_dir_name = 'config'
-    if hasattr(sys.implementation, '_multiarch'):
-        config_dir_name += f'-{sys.implementation._multiarch}'
     return os.path.join(get_path('stdlib'), config_dir_name, 'Makefile')
 
 
 def _get_sysconfigdata_name():
-    multiarch = getattr(sys.implementation, '_multiarch', '')
     return os.environ.get(
         '_PYTHON_SYSCONFIGDATA_NAME',
-        f'_sysconfigdata_{sys.abiflags}_{sys.platform}_{multiarch}',
+        f'_sysconfigdata_{sys.platform}',
     )
 
 

 Thomas