On Apr 28, 2:09 pm, Rob <rob.nikan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Python on my system is behaving badly, so I want to create a new > install from source code. I have OS X 10.6.2, I downloaded the source > code (Python-2.6.5.tar.bz2) and did the usual, ./configure, make, sudo > make install. Build went fine. But on install, why is it putting > things is my home directory?
Doh! Nevermind... I had created a ~/.pydistutils.cfg file a couple weeks ago, for some stupid reason I can't remember. I forgot to delete that file. It's contents were: [install] install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages install_scripts = ~/bin So it was overriding the normal setup.py behavior. Rob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
