[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

2012-12-02 Thread Ron Hubbard
Ron Hubbard added the comment: George.Peristerakis' patch works please apply -- ___ Python tracker <http://bugs.python.org/issue9674> ___ ___ Python-bugs-l

[issue13028] python wastes linux users time by checking for dylib on each dynamic library load

2012-09-29 Thread Ron Hubbard
Ron Hubbard added the comment: i'll try to reproduce this later. looking at the below strace output, python's behaviour seems pretty stupid tho, for example if /lib is the only existing path out of /lib, /lib64, /usr/lib/, /usr/local/lib, etc etc, it should check for all these d

[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

2012-09-29 Thread Ron Hubbard
Ron Hubbard added the comment: this is a very ugly bug and should be fixed ASAP it's not only breaking python itself, but any package that uses this python installer, for example http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1025 what is preventing a merge of the existing

[issue13028] python wastes linux users time by checking for dylib on each dynamic library load

2012-09-27 Thread Ron Hubbard
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[issue16065] Python/distutils setup.py: passing --prefix / makes --root ignored

2012-09-27 Thread Ron Hubbard
Ron Hubbard added the comment: python 2.7.2 installation: CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE" ./configure -C --prefix="/" || exit 1 make -j9 || exit 1 make DESTDIR="//opt/python" install || exit 1 what python generates out of --install-scripts=//bin \

[issue16065] Python/distutils setup.py: passing --prefix / makes --root ignored

2012-09-27 Thread Ron Hubbard
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[issue16065] Python/distutils setup.py: passing --prefix / makes --root ignored

2012-09-27 Thread Ron Hubbard
New submission from Ron Hubbard: setup.py loses the DESTDIR aka --root iff "/" is passed as prefix http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/1025 I can reproduce this now, but only with a prefix of "/". For example, this works: $ python setup.py install --prefix "/a&quo