STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> If the user base cannot be calculated, paths
> starting with ~ should not exist or be used at all in this context.
It's not "~" but "{userbase}" substitution variable.
Here is a new patch implementing this idea: don't create the variables using
the user directory if the user doesn't exist (if we cannot get the user
directory). I didn't test distutils, I just try to start Python (it does work
using bug.c).
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file21896/nonexistent_user.patch
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