'make install' should not create files in the source tree as long as
you've run 'make' beforehand.  Which files does it create?

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 01:04, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
> Small problem.
> 
> The 'make install' step creates files in the source tree.  It probably
> shouldn't do this, because if you want to do this as root (sudo make
> install to install under /usr/local, say), these file are created as
> root.  This is impolite more than anything else.
> 
> The build and install targets just call setup.py, so is this a bug in
> the distutils?
> 
> a.
> 
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