[issue15976] Inconsistent behavior of search_for_exec_prefix() results in startup failure in certain cases

STINNER Victor added the comment: This issue was reported on Python 2.7 eight years ago. getpath.c has been deeply reworked, especially by the PEP 587 (PyConfig) implementation. I consider that the issue is now fixed. If it's not the case, feel free to reopen it. -- nosy: +vstinner

[issue15976] Inconsistent behavior of search_for_exec_prefix() results in startup failure in certain cases

Changes by Ezio Melotti : -- nosy: +loewis, ncoghlan stage: -> needs patch versions: +Python 3.4 ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bu

[issue15976] Inconsistent behavior of search_for_exec_prefix() results in startup failure in certain cases

Muflone added the comment: Confirmed for Arch Linux x86_64 with python version 2.7.3 -- nosy: +Muflone versions: +Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue15976] Inconsistent behavior of search_for_exec_prefix() results in startup failure in certain cases

New submission from Evangelos Foutras: On Arch Linux /lib is a symbolic link to /usr/lib. When the Python interpreter is provided with an argv[0] of e.g. '/python2.7' and the current working directory is /, it'll fail to start with the following error: IOError: invalid Python installation: una