From a484ed4124123dd7f2d5d7877e4b527ac07e4992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Duponchelle <mathieu@centricular.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:04:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gst-uninstalled: make override hacks work in virtualenv

virtualenv ships its own version of site.py, which does not
expose a getusersitepackages function. An alternative method
is thus used when we detect that we are running in a virtualenv.
---
 gst-uninstalled.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gst-uninstalled.py b/gst-uninstalled.py
index 2853deff2b..07832d734b 100755
--- a/gst-uninstalled.py
+++ b/gst-uninstalled.py
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
 
+from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
+
 from common import get_meson
 
 SCRIPTDIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
@@ -137,6 +139,10 @@ def get_subprocess_env(options):
 
     return env
 
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1871549/determine-if-python-is-running-inside-virtualenv
+def in_venv():
+    return (hasattr(sys, 'real_prefix') or
+            (hasattr(sys, 'base_prefix') and sys.base_prefix != sys.prefix))
 
 def python_env(options, unset_env=False):
     """
@@ -150,7 +156,11 @@ def python_env(options, unset_env=False):
             not os.path.exists(gst_python_path):
         return False
 
-    sitepackages = site.getusersitepackages()
+    if in_venv ():
+        sitepackages = get_python_lib()
+    else:
+        sitepackages = site.getusersitepackages()
+
     if not sitepackages:
         return False