[issue6138] './configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home'

Ned Deily added the comment: Let's consolidate these. -- nosy: +ned.deily resolution: -> duplicate stage: -> committed/rejected status: open -> closed superseder: -> during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg ___ Python t

[issue6138] './configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home'

Éric Araujo added the comment: See #4655. (Not sure which one is the superseder.) -- nosy: +eric.araujo ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue6138] './configure; make install' fails in setup.py step if .pydistutils.cfg specifies 'home'

R. David Murray added the comment: 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

[issue6138] ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step

R. David Murray added the comment: 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? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue6138] ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: Ok. I confirm it works fine on a standard debian as well -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-lis

[issue6138] ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step

R. David Murray added the comment: Benjamin can't reproduce it either. Must be something weird in my environment, so I'm lowering the priority. -- priority: release blocker -> normal ___ Python tracker ___

[issue6138] ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step

Tarek Ziadé added the comment: works for me under MacOS X, I am trying now under debian -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue6138] ./configure; make install fails in setup.py step

New submission from R. David Murray : 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," < .