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

Xavier de Gaye added the comment: 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. -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: test needed

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

Xavier de Gaye added the comment: Issue 31114 is the same issue and proposes a workaround and another fix. -- nosy: +xdegaye ___ Python tracker ___

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

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.

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

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

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

Ron Hubbard added the comment: George.Peristerakis' patch works please apply -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___ ___

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

Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___

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

George Peristerakis added the comment: Correction a typo error in the test. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27870/issue9674.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674

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

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. -- nosy: +George.Peristerakis Added file:

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

Éric Araujo added the comment: A unit test is needed. -- versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___ ___

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

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 ? --

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

Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- nosy: +arschficker ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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

Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Thanks. Have you run the test suite to make sure this doesn’t add bugs? -- assignee: tarek - eric.araujo components: -Build, Installation, Library (Lib) stage: - test needed type: compile error - behavior versions: +Python 3.3 -Python

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

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 -- nosy: +anacrolix ___ Python tracker

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

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. -- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file22360/fix-root-prefix.patch ___ Python

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

Changes by Matt Joiner anacro...@gmail.com: -- components: +Build, Library (Lib) nosy: +alexis type: behavior - compile error ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___

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

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? -- assignee: - tarek components: +Distutils versions: +3rd party ___ Python tracker

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

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=/ :) -- nosy: +r.david.murray ___ Python tracker

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

Changes by Roumen Petrov bugtr...@roumenpetrov.info: -- nosy: +rpetrov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

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

Changes by aj mailtome200420032...@gmail.com: -- title: make install DESTDIR=/ fails - make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is / ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue9674

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

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

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

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. -- ___ Python tracker

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

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. -- ___ Python tracker