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Description of problem:
Python's distutils package reports the incorrect path for the location
of the usable python packages.  On x86_64 the location of these files
is /usr/lib64/python2.2 however Python itself reports that its files
should be in /usr/lib/python2.2.

Note: I am not a Python developer so I may be using terms incorrectly.
 I ran into the problem while trying to build PostgreSQL 7.4.6.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-2.2.3-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ python
Python 2.2.3 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 17:14:26) 
[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from distutils import sysconfig
>>> print sysconfig.get_config_vars('LIBDEST')


Actual Results:  ['/usr/lib/python2.2']


Expected Results:  ['/usr/lib64/python2.2']

Additional info:

  The compilation of PostgreSQL fails because it cannot find the
proper location for the files it needs to build the python
interface/bindings.