On Saturday 21 August 2010, it occurred to aj to exclaim: > On Aug 20, 4:39 pm, Thomas Jollans <tho...@jollybox.de> wrote: > > On Saturday 21 August 2010, it occurred to aj to exclaim: > > > I am trying to install python with make install DESTDIR=/home/blah > > > > > > --prefix=/ > > > > ... > > > > > creating /lib/python2.6 > > > error: could not create '/lib/python2.6': Permission denied > > > make: *** [sharedinstall] Error 1 > > > > Obviously, the flags you specified didn't have the effect you intended. > > > > --prefix=$HOME > > > > should do the trick. > > The whole point of DESTDIR is that it should be prepended to all > installed paths, but the binaries should not contain any references to > it.DESTDIR is commonly used by packagers, for example, to allow > installation without superuser privileges.
Sorry, that feature slipped my mind. So, are you running $ make install DESTDIR=/home/foo/bar or are you trying to directly run setup.py? I just tried and use make worked for me. (though I was in a Python 3.2 dev source tree, not 2.6 -- maybe this was a bug that has been fixed?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
