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during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg #48905

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jah mannequin opened this issue Dec 14, 2008 · 5 comments
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during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg #48905

jah mannequin opened this issue Dec 14, 2008 · 5 comments
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jah mannequin commented Dec 14, 2008

BPO 4655
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jah mannequin commented Dec 14, 2008

When installing python 2.6, I used:
./configure --prefix=/home/name/usr

Installation was fine and everything was installed to:
~/usr/lib/python2.6

But the .so files were installed to:
~/usr/lib/python

As ~/usr/lib/python was (no longer) declared in my PYTHONPATH, I ran
into import issues. The problem was due to a forgotten file:
~/.pydistutils.cfg

So this is clearly a user error, but I wonder if it is something which
should be avoided at the setup.py level.

When installing python, the installation locations are derived from the
results of ./configure. When setup.py is eventually called, the
installation locations can change. This seems undesirable. Would it be
better if setup.py instructed distutils to ignore any configuration file
so that the installation directories matched what was used by the rest
of 'make install'?

Related: http://bugs.python.org/issue1180

@jah jah mannequin added topic-installation type-bug An unexpected behavior, bug, or error labels Dec 14, 2008
@jah jah mannequin changed the title setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg Dec 14, 2008
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BreamoreBoy mannequin commented Jun 26, 2010

Could an installation guru please take a look at this?

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merwok commented Nov 18, 2010

Not reading .pydistutils.cfg during CPython’s build seems a good idea to me. I would like confirming opinions.

@merwok merwok added the build The build process and cross-build label Nov 18, 2010
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rdm notes in duplicate bpo-6138:

There is a bug here, of some sort. Either the .pydistutils.cfg file's
install clause should override the default --prefix somehow, or the
error message should indicate where the setting for 'home' and
'--prefix' came from to enable the user to debug the configuration. In
the latter case there would also need to be a way to explicitly tell
either make install or configure to ignore .pydistutils.cfg. In the
former case, an explicit --prefix passed to configure would need to
override .pydistutils.cfg.

@iritkatriel iritkatriel added 3.8 only security fixes 3.9 only security fixes 3.10 only security fixes labels Nov 10, 2020
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This is no longer relevant for 3.12 and probably not worth working about for older versions after all these years.

@iritkatriel iritkatriel closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Oct 4, 2022
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