R. David Murray added the comment:
As far as I can tell, this is working as designed, and in fact you ought to see
site-packages getting compiled *three* times (normal, -O, and -OO).
I wonder if this is a holdover from when we didn't have per-interpreter pyc
files, and its just that no one not
New submission from Matt Morrison:
I've been building Python 3 from source on Linux for a long time (at least
since 3.2 days), and I honestly can't remember if this has happened before 3.6
or not, which is why I'm only tagging this 3.6.
Basically, when running 'make install' (after building e