Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Peter, > > thanks for the bug report. > > * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:43:00AM CEST: >> The instmany-python test is failing for me on Mac OS X 10.5.7. Looks >> like it is trying to install things into /Library/Python, and as I did >> not run make check as the superuser, can't. > > Ouch. This looks like a bug in python.m4, or like python doing > something we do not expect. In any case, configuring with a local > --prefix should not cause us to try to install files below /Library. >
Another Apple bug. http://opensource.apple.com/source/python/python-30.1.3/fix/sysconfig.py.ed The ed script patches sysconfig.py so that it ignores prefix and just returns /Library/Python. I will file a bug with Apple later today. Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com
