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Author: matejcik

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2017-10-11-14-45-58.bpo-1294959.Lwre0q.rst

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+Introduce a ``platsubdir`` sysconfig variable that contains the name of the
+platform-specific "lib" directory. This is used to construct paths that do
+not differ by prefix, i.e., ``/usr/lib`` vs ``/usr/lib64``. The
+``posix_prefix`` install scheme is changed to take this into account.
+
+By default, this is ``basename $libdir``, but can be overriden by
+``./configure --with-custom-platsubdir``.
+
+#.. section: Documentation #.. section: Tests .. section: Build
+
+On 64bit Linux systems that use ``$prefix/lib64``, this is now the default
+install location for the standard library. Python will still be able to
+import modules installed in ``$prefix/lib``.
+
+#.. section: Windows #.. section: macOS #.. section: IDLE #.. section:
+Tools/Demos #.. section: C API
+
+# Write your Misc/NEWS entry below.  It should be a simple ReST paragraph. #
+Don't start with "- Issue #<n>: " or "- bpo-<n>: " or that sort of stuff.
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