[Python-checkins] devguide: Emphasize even stronger that you do not need to install a checkout build.

[brett.cannon]

brett.cannon pushed 9a7b9f4cccd2 to devguide:

http://hg.python.org/devguide/rev/9a7b9f4cccd2
changeset:   223:9a7b9f4cccd2
tag:         tip
user:        Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
date:        Sun Jan 30 15:51:17 2011 -0800
summary:
  Emphasize even stronger that you do not need to install a checkout build.

files:
  setup.rst

diff --git a/setup.rst b/setup.rst
--- a/setup.rst
+++ b/setup.rst
@@ -122,7 +122,11 @@
 Once CPython is done building you will then have a working build
 that can be run in-place; ``./python`` on most machines (and what is used in
 all examples), ``./python.exe`` on OS X (when on a case-insensitive filesystem,
-which is the default).
+which is the default). There is absolutely no need to install your built copy
+of Python! The interpreter will realize it is being run directly out of a
+checkout and thus use the files found in the checkout. If you are worried you
+might accidentally install your checkout build, you can add
+``--prefix=/dev/null`` to the configuration step.
 
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