[Patches] Fix main Makefile to create prefix, exec_prefix
Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Sun, 09 Apr 2000 18:40:21 -0400
> Greg Ward writes:
> > This patch fixes the top Python Makefile so it creates $(prefix) or
> > $(exec_prefix) before attempting to create directories under them.
> > Handy when you use prefixes like "/usr/local/python-1.5.2" and
> > "/usr/local/python-1.6a1", which don't exist until you install Python
>
> I say check it in. If Guido disagrees he can yell/email about it
> later; this is quite reasonable given the recent discussion of "stow"
> and the need of developers to keep multiple versions (including patch
> levels!) installed.
I still don't like it. Let's discuss this face-to-face.
My argument why it doesn't do this (where I know that it easily
could!) is that if root makes a typo and says
make install prefix=/usr/kocal
it will happily create /usr/kocal. I think this is bad.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)