Dear Martin,

Many thanks for your help and your reply. I will correct the errors and let
you know the result.

best regards,
Qian Liu

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Martin v. Löwis <report@bugs.python.org>wrote:

>
> Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> added the comment:
>
> There are some minor errors indeed: the syntax for PATH and PYTHONPATH is
> wrong (don't use quotes (") in the middle of the value). Also, putting
> site-packages into PYTHONPATH should not be necessary.
>
> I think the main cause might be the incorrect --prefix argument. Don't use
> "~/PythonInstall", but "$HOME/PythonInstall". Also, when I try this, I get
>
> configure: error: expected an absolute directory name for --prefix:
> ~/PythonInstall
>
> so you must have made something different (or you have used a shell
> different from bash), else you would have gotten the same error.
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