New submission from Zachary Ware:

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On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Peter Bröcker <peter.broecker@uni-koeln.de> wrote:

Hi,

I have tried to set up the distutils config files for a custom module installation. Using the suggested snippet from

http://docs.python.org/2/install/

[install] install-base=$HOME/python install-purelib=lib install-platlib=lib.$PLAT install-scripts=scripts install-data=data did not work for me.

Instead, I had to add install-headers and additionally modify all paths to include $base:

[install] install-base=/some/dir install-purelib=$base/lib install-platlib=$base/lib.$PLAT install-scripts=$base/scripts install-headers=$base/include install-data=$base/data

I'm unsure if this is actually a bug, but I could only resolve this with the help of this answer on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12768721

Best regards, Peter

---------- assignee: docs@python components: Distutils, Documentation messages: 209829 nosy: docs@python, zach.ware priority: normal severity: normal stage: test needed status: open title: Update distutils sample config file in Doc/install/index.rst type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20464> _______________________________________