Ah, you're right. I didn't realize that --prefix had to come after
install.  It was just by accident that I happened to do it in that
order myself.

I'd still consider this to be a bug in distutils btw.

Aaron Meurer

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, David Joyner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> ...
>
>>>>> with no problems. The --prefix option was not recognized.
>>>>> The system Python for 10.6.7 is 2.7.
>>>
>>> The --prefix command is not recognized and it's not present in --help.
>>
>> This must be some issue with your distutils.  I did "./setup.py
>> install --prefix=~/Desktop/sympy" and it installed it in that
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood. setup.py --prefix ... install (as I thought you first
> you suggested) does not work but setup.py install --prefix... does work
> fine. Also,
> ../setup.py test
> passes when run from that directory.
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