John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: OK, this was because I had a .pydistutils.cfg file containing the following (ironically, put there following somebody's recipe for installing setuptools packages using stow):
[install] install_lib=~/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages install_scripts=~/bin [easy_install] site_dirs=~/lib/python$py_version_short/site-packages Removing that file, make install no longer tries to install files outside of the directory passed to --prefix So this bug is not valid, and I don't think there's any regression. There's probably another bug about making it awkward to invent a consistent way of installing Python software using tools like stow, but I'm not sure whether that bug lies with Python or with setuptools, or both. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3858> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
