Ned Deily added the comment:
Let's consolidate these.
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resolution: - duplicate
stage: - committed/rejected
status: open - closed
superseder: - during Python installation, setup.py should not use
.pydistutils.cfg
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Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment:
See #4655. (Not sure which one is the superseder.)
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New submission from R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com:
With current trunk, after a make distclean; ./configure; make install
sequence, I get the following error:
[...]
# Substitution happens here, as the completely-expanded BINDIR
# is not available in configure
sed -e
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:
works for me under MacOS X, I am trying now under debian
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
Benjamin can't reproduce it either. Must be something weird in my
environment, so I'm lowering the priority.
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Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment:
Ok.
I confirm it works fine on a standard debian as well
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R. David Murray rdmur...@bitdance.com added the comment:
I figured it out. It turns out that a while back I created a
.pydistutils.cfg file and put home in there.
There is a bug here, of some sort. Either the .pydistutils.cfg file's
install clause should override the default --prefix somehow,
