Re: automake-1.11 test failure on darwin9 - instmany-python.test

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> thanks for the bug report.
> 
> * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Mon, May 18, 2009 at 03:43:00AM CEST:
>> The instmany-python test is failing for me on Mac OS X 10.5.7. Looks
>> like it is trying to install things into /Library/Python, and as I did
>> not run make check as the superuser, can't.
> 
> Ouch.  This looks like a bug in python.m4, or like python doing
> something we do not expect.  In any case, configuring with a local
> --prefix should not cause us to try to install files below /Library.
> 

Another Apple bug.
http://opensource.apple.com/source/python/python-30.1.3/fix/sysconfig.py.ed

The ed script patches sysconfig.py so that it ignores prefix and just
returns /Library/Python.

I will file a bug with Apple later today.

Peter
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