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make install tries to install files outside of --prefix #48108

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jjlee mannequin opened this issue Sep 13, 2008 · 3 comments
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make install tries to install files outside of --prefix #48108

jjlee mannequin opened this issue Sep 13, 2008 · 3 comments
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jjlee mannequin commented Sep 13, 2008

BPO 3858
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title = 'make install tries to install files outside of --prefix'
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jjlee mannequin commented Sep 13, 2008

./configure --prefix=DIR && make && make install tries to install files
in directories outside of DIR. This happens both with trunk (r66412)
and 2.6b3. This is a problem for users of GNU stow, for example. I
know that certainly this worked fairly recently on the py3k branch, for
example, and I believe it also used to work on trunk.

I'm not certain whether in this particular run the --prefix directory
existed or not prior to make install, but I certainly get essentially
the same failure regardless of whether that directory exists.

~/src/Python-2.6b3$ ./configure --prefix=/home/john/stow/python26b3
...
~/src/Python-2.6b3$ make
...
~/src/Python-2.6b3$ make install
/usr/bin/install -c python-config
/home/john/stow/python26b3/bin/python2.6-config
rm python-config
./python -E ./setup.py install \
--prefix=/home/john/stow/python26b3 \
--install-scripts=/home/john/stow/python26b3/bin \
--install-platlib=/home/john/stow/python26b3/lib/python2.6/lib-dynload \
--root=/
running install
running build
running build_ext
INFO: Can't locate Tcl/Tk libs and/or headers

Failed to find the necessary bits to build these modules:
_bsddb _tkinter bsddb185
dbm gdbm sunaudiodev
To find the necessary bits, look in setup.py in detect_modules() for the
module's name.

running build_scripts
running install_lib
copying build/lib.linux-i686-2.6/_random.so ->
/home/john/lib/python2.6/site-packages
error: could not delete
'/home/john/lib/python2.6/site-packages/_random.so': Permission denied
make: *** [sharedinstall] Error 1

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jjlee mannequin commented Sep 13, 2008

OK, this was because I had a .pydistutils.cfg file containing the
following (ironically, put there following somebody's recipe for
installing setuptools packages using stow):

[install]
install_lib=/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages
install_scripts=/bin

[easy_install]
site_dirs=~/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages

Removing that file, make install no longer tries to install files
outside of the directory passed to --prefix

So this bug is not valid, and I don't think there's any regression.

There's probably another bug about making it awkward to invent a
consistent way of installing Python software using tools like stow, but
I'm not sure whether that bug lies with Python or with setuptools, or both.

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pitrou commented Sep 14, 2008

OK, thanks for the report anyway :)

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