On Aug 23, 2:23 pm, "Martin v. Loewis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > > Martin- Asking for help :) > > Ok. Please try the patch below. > > If this works, please make a bug report. > > Regards, > Martin > > Index: Lib/distutils/util.py > =================================================================== > --- Lib/distutils/util.py (Revision 84197) > +++ Lib/distutils/util.py (Arbeitskopie) > @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ > if not os.path.isabs(pathname): > return os.path.join(new_root, pathname) > else: > - return os.path.join(new_root, pathname[1:]) > + return os.path.join(new_root, pathname.lstrip('/')) > > elif os.name == 'nt': > (drive, path) = os.path.splitdrive(pathname)
Thanks Martin. That seems to work. I will file a bug report. Also, can you describe what the problem was? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list