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This introduces a new configure and sysconfig variable platsubdir, which is the name of subdirectory of prefix that holds platform-specific libraries. On many Linux distributions, there is separation between /usr/lib and /usr/lib64, as opposed to prefix vs exec_prefix, which is what Python is accustomed to.

This should improve the situation, and platsubdir will be used to differentiate library subdirectories below prefix.

Based on last comments in the bug report http://bugs.python.org/issue1294959 , I have renamed "platlibdir" to "platsubdir" -- IMHO it's more important to note that this is _plat_form-specific than that it is a _lib_rary directory. (otherwise we'd end up with platlibsubdir and that's horrible ;) )

https://bugs.python.org/issue1294959