Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. This bug was already known, but I haven’t had the time yet to fix it. I’m adding you to the nosy list on the other bug so that you can follow progress and maybe help testing the fix.
---------- assignee: -> eric.araujo components: +Distutils, Distutils2 -Build nosy: +alexis, eric.araujo, tarek resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is / title: Python/distutils setup.py: passing --prefix / makes --root ignored -> setup.py: passing --prefix=/ makes --root ignored type: security -> behavior versions: +3rd party, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16065> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com