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'./configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home' #50388

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bitdancer opened this issue May 28, 2009 · 8 comments
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'./configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home' #50388

bitdancer opened this issue May 28, 2009 · 8 comments
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BPO 6138
Nosy @tarekziade, @ned-deily, @merwok, @bitdancer
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  • bpo-4655: during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg
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title = "'./configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home'"
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    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 "s,@exename@,/usr/local/bin/python2.7," < ./Misc/python-config.in

    python-config
    /usr/bin/install -c python-config /usr/local/bin/python2.7-config
    rm python-config
    ./python -E ./setup.py install \
    --prefix=/usr/local \
    --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin \
    --install-platlib=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload \
    --root=/
    running install
    error: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both
    make: *** [sharedinstall] Error 1

    @bitdancer bitdancer added release-blocker build The build process and cross-build labels May 28, 2009
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    tarekziade mannequin commented May 28, 2009

    works for me under MacOS X, I am trying now under debian

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    Benjamin can't reproduce it either. Must be something weird in my
    environment, so I'm lowering the priority.

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    tarekziade mannequin commented May 28, 2009

    Ok.

    I confirm it works fine on a standard debian as well

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    I can see that 'self.home' is '~' when that error message is generated,
    but I can't figure out where self.home gets set. Any clues you can give me?

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    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, 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.

    Or perhaps there's some other solution I'm not seeing at the moment.

    @bitdancer bitdancer changed the title ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step './configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home' May 28, 2009
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    merwok commented Nov 18, 2010

    See bpo-4655. (Not sure which one is the superseder.)

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    Let's consolidate these.

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
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