[Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src Makefile.pre.in,1.42,1.43

Andrew Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Thu, 19 Jul 2001 12:41:55 -0400


On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:17:54AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>Thomas, I don't care about unset either, but setting PYTHONHOME=
>doesn't work -- it actually prevents the extensions from being built
>properly.  So I'm changing the "sharedmods" target to what I presume
>it was before:
>	PYTHONPATH= ./$(PYTHON) $(srcdir)/setup.py build

Wait, doesn't this restore the original bug, which was that if
PYTHONHOME is set, your newly built Python gets the old libraries when
it runs setup.py?

--amk