Issue 6138: './configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home' (original) (raw)

Created on 2009-05-28 21:01 by r.david.murray, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (8)
msg88476 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2009-05-28 21:01
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
msg88477 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-05-28 21:25
works for me under MacOS X, I am trying now under debian
msg88478 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2009-05-28 21:34
Benjamin can't reproduce it either. Must be something weird in my environment, so I'm lowering the priority.
msg88481 - (view)	Author: Tarek Ziadé (tarek) *	Date: 2009-05-28 21:46
Ok. I confirm it works fine on a standard debian as well
msg88482 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2009-05-28 21:48
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?
msg88485 - (view)	Author: R. David Murray (r.david.murray) *	Date: 2009-05-28 22:24
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.
msg121411 - (view)	Author: Éric Araujo (eric.araujo) *	Date: 2010-11-18 01:58
See #4655. (Not sure which one is the superseder.)
msg182482 - (view)	Author: Ned Deily (ned.deily) *	Date: 2013-02-20 08:53
Let's consolidate these.