[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: OK, thanks for the report anyway :) -- nosy: +pitrou resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

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 insta

[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

Changes by Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -- components: +Installation priority: -> critical type: -> behavior versions: +Python 2.6 ___ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

[issue3858] make install tries to install files outside of --prefix

New submission from John J Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ./configure --prefix=DIR && make && make install tries to install files in directories outside of DIR. This happens both with trunk (r66412) and 2.6b3. This is a problem for users of GNU stow, for example. I know that certainly this worked fa