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  r69485 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-10 13:31:09 +0100 (Tue, 10 Feb 2009) | 1 line

  Fixed #3386: the optional prefix argument was ignored under OS2 and NT in distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib
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diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index 9993fba..615da07 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@
             if get_python_version() < "2.2":
                 return prefix
             else:
-                return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
+                return os.path.join(prefix, "Lib", "site-packages")
 
     elif os.name == "mac":
         if plat_specific:
@@ -145,9 +145,9 @@
 
     elif os.name == "os2":
         if standard_lib:
-            return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib")
+            return os.path.join(prefix, "Lib")
         else:
-            return os.path.join(PREFIX, "Lib", "site-packages")
+            return os.path.join(prefix, "Lib", "site-packages")
 
     else:
         raise DistutilsPlatformError(
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sysconfig.py
index aa1187e..9f82057 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_sysconfig.py
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
         # XXX doesn't work on Linux when Python was never installed before
         #self.assert_(os.path.isdir(lib_dir), lib_dir)
         # test for pythonxx.lib?
+        self.assertNotEqual(sysconfig.get_python_lib(),
+                            sysconfig.get_python_lib(prefix=TESTFN))
 
     def test_get_python_inc(self):
         # The check for srcdir is copied from Python's setup.py,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 23ea460..5ec0883 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #3386: distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib prefix argument was ignored
+  under NT and OS2. Patch by Philip Jenvey.
+
 - Issue #4890: Handle empty text search pattern in Tkinter.Text.search.
 
 - Issue #5170: Fixed Unicode output bug in logging and added test case.