[New-bugs-announce] [issue1054] scriptsinstall target fails in alternate build dir

[Skip Montanaro]

New submission from Skip Montanaro:

I tried running make scriptsinstall from my build directory.
It failed with this error message:

  error: file 'byteyears.py' does not exist

I added os.path.abspath() around the source file name in the
error message.  It's looking for byteyears.py in the current
directory.  From where I executed make it's in ../Tools/scripts.
I'm not sure it would work if executed from the top-level source
directory either.

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components: Build
messages: 55398
nosy: skip.montanaro
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: scriptsinstall target fails in alternate build dir
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6

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