[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Xavier de Gaye]

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The problem is that the build system , Py_GetPath() and the distutils module do 
not handle correctly the case where the configure prefix is '/'.

Closing as a duplicate of issue 31114.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Xavier de Gaye]

Xavier de Gaye added the comment:

Issue 31114 is the same issue and proposes a workaround and another fix.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Martin Olsen]

Martin Olsen added the comment:

I have python (2.7.9  3.4.3) installed with prefix=/ which causes problems 
when change_root() doesn't lstrip() the path separators.

I have applied Ivailo's patch from 2015-02-13 and handful of packages without 
issues.

Attached is a port of the patch to 3.4.3. Please note that the test failed 
(because it used the old distutils package, I suspect) and the win32 path 
handling is a bit messed up, but I don't have time to fix that ATM. It works as 
expected during runtime.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39545/Python-3.4.3-issue9674-3.patch

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Ivailo Monev]

Ivailo Monev added the comment:

Can you please apply fix-root-prefix.patch? Or the updated version fof 
issue9674.patch that I've attached?

sysconfig tests will still fail and it will return bogus paths with double 
slash (e.g. //lib/python2.7) but at least Python will be installable with 
prefix=/ and will not mess up with files on root (/) when DESTDIR is set. That 
may not be complete solution but it's a step forward to that.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Ron Hubbard]

Ron Hubbard added the comment:

George.Peristerakis' patch works

please apply

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[George Peristerakis]

George Peristerakis added the comment:

Correction a typo error in the test.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[George Peristerakis]

George Peristerakis added the comment:

Here's a patch to the problem. I refactored the code to work the same way on 
posix, nt, os2 environments. Plus a unit test for the posix environment that 
the bug was initially for.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo added the comment:

A unit test is needed.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Ron Hubbard]

Ron Hubbard added the comment:

this is a very ugly bug and should be fixed ASAP

it's not only breaking python itself, but any package that uses this python 
installer, for example

http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1025

what is preventing a merge of the existing patch ?

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

Thanks.  Have you run the test suite to make sure this doesn’t add bugs?

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Matt Joiner]

Matt Joiner anacro...@gmail.com added the comment:

Just ran into this bug myself with 3.2. Apparently this patch works: 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/bd8818ab9d4af8d7

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Matt Joiner]

Matt Joiner anacro...@gmail.com added the comment:

Attached a patch that fixes it, only the line numbers have changed from Martin 
v. Loewis's patch. Used on 3.2.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Matt Joiner]

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

Re-adding distutils since we’re not sure the bug does not apply there.

aj, have you add time to test it?

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:

See also issue1676135.  Seems that the posters were wrong in concluding that 
the double slashes wouldn't bother anyone using prefix=/ :)

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Roumen Petrov]

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

Thanks for the clarification. Can you test the bug with the versions that are 
still open for bug fixes, that is 2.7, 3.1 and 3.2?

I’ll add tests and apply the original patch in distutils2. (distutils is frozen 
except for bug fixes, which this minor cosmetic change is not.)

I’m not a configure or make expert, so I’ll request help from other developers 
when we have more information.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

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aj mailtome200420032...@gmail.com added the comment:

Thanks for the reply Eric. It is not a cosmetic thing. It's a bug for sure in 
python-2.6 disutils. I will try out python-2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and update the bug.

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[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:

I have no certitude, but a strong intuition that distutils is not guilty at all 
here, but the makefile is. When I talk about the cosmetic bug, I refer to the 
double slash thing.

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