diff --git a/lldb/CMakeLists.txt b/lldb/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lldb/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lldb/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
 
 if (LLDB_ENABLE_PYTHON)
   set(cachestring_LLDB_PYTHON_RELATIVE_PATH
-    "Path where Python modules are installed, relative to install prefix")
+    "Path where Python modules are installed, relative to LLDB's install prefix")
   set(cachestring_LLDB_PYTHON_EXE_RELATIVE_PATH
-    "Path to python interpreter exectuable, relative to install prefix")
+    "Path to python interpreter exectuable, relative to python's install prefix")
   set(cachestring_LLDB_PYTHON_EXT_SUFFIX
     "Filename extension for native code python modules")
 
diff --git a/lldb/bindings/python/get-python-config.py b/lldb/bindings/python/get-python-config.py
--- a/lldb/bindings/python/get-python-config.py
+++ b/lldb/bindings/python/get-python-config.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import sys
 import argparse
 import sysconfig
-import distutils.sysconfig
 
 
 def relpath_nodots(path, base):
@@ -20,7 +19,18 @@
     parser.add_argument("variable_name")
     args = parser.parse_args()
     if args.variable_name == "LLDB_PYTHON_RELATIVE_PATH":
-        print(distutils.sysconfig.get_python_lib(True, False, ''))
+        # LLDB_PYTHON_RELATIVE_PATH is the relative path from lldb's prefix
+        # to where lldb's python libraries will be installed.
+        #
+        # The way we're going to compute this is to take the relative path from
+        # PYTHON'S prefix to where python libraries are supposed to be
+        # installed.
+        #
+        # The result is if LLDB and python are give the same prefix, then
+        # lldb's python lib will be put in the correct place for python to find it.
+        # If not, you'll have to use lldb -P or lldb -print-script-interpreter-info
+        # to figure out where it is.
+        print(relpath_nodots(sysconfig.get_path("platlib"), sys.prefix))
     elif args.variable_name == "LLDB_PYTHON_EXE_RELATIVE_PATH":
         tried = list()
         exe = sys.executable