Ned Deily added the comment: The problem you see is being caused by trying to override "prefix" on the "altinstall" or "install" targets. While Makefiles for many products will let you do that successfully, you really can't do that with Python's. Unfortunately, the values for "prefix" and "exec_prefix" specified (or defaulted) on ./configure are used during the main make build targets. This includes the customization of the shebangs lines for the scripts like "idle" and "pydoc". If you change the "prefix" value for the "install" phase, most files do get installed at the changed location but there are various places where the original, configured values remain. You can see this if you run "python -m sysconfig" and examine the prefix values. One result is that any scripts installed via Distutils (including using pip) will get installed to the configured location, e.g. default /usr/local/bin. This also affects ensurepip (new in 3.4): the pip and easy_install scripts are installed in the configured value of p refix, e.g. /usr/local/bin, rather than the overridden value. That's not good.
Changing prefix on the install targets seems like a fairly esoteric use case and one with an easy workaround: don't do that, use ./configure --prefix=/path/to instead. I don't think it's worth trying to support since it may require some major Makefile work to get all the right dependencies. But, at a minimum, it would be worth adding a test to the various install targets that would check and abort if prefix is attempted to be changed so you don't end up with a silently broken installation. ---------- components: +Build keywords: +easy nosy: +ned.deily stage: -> needs patch title: idle, pydoc search python on wrong path at make altinstall with different exec- and prefix e.g. $HOME -> python installation is broken if prefix is overridden on an install target _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18320> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
