[Python-bugs-list] [Bug #129854] old PYTHONPATH confuses setup.py [build|install]

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Bug #129854, was updated on 2001-Jan-23 13:18
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: Python
Category: Build
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Submitted by: pj99
Assigned to : akuchling
Summary: old PYTHONPATH confuses setup.py [build|install]

Details: Some of the Makefile actions set the value of PYTHONPATH
to the python libraries being built, intentionally over-
riding the ambient value, such as in the Makefile line:

   349:       export PYTHONPATH; PYTHONPATH="`pwd`/Lib"; \

But the lines that invoke setup.py:

   163:       ./python$(EXE) $(srcdir)/setup.py build
   431:       ./python$(EXE) $(srcdir)/setup.py install

don't override PYTHONPATH, and when I first tried to
build and install Python 2.1, on a system configured
to be running Python 2.0, these setup lines failed,
with the complaint:

   AttributeError: 'distutils.sysconfig' module has no attribute
'set_python_build'

which is a sensible complaint, given that 2.0 sysconfig
lacks 'set_python_build', 2.1 has it, and setup.py invokes
it.

Would it make sense to be overriding PYTHONPATH for these
lines of the Makefile as well?


Follow-Ups:

Date: 2001-Feb-16 21:35
By: akuchling

Comment:
Good point!  Fixed in revision 1.20 of the top-level Makefile.pre.in, so
this should be correct in 2.1beta1.

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