[issue9674] make install DESTDIR=/home/blah fails when the prefix specified is /

[Martin Olsen]

Martin Olsen added the comment:

I have python (2.7.9 & 3.4.3) installed with prefix=/ which causes problems when change_root() doesn't lstrip() the path separators.

I have applied Ivailo's patch from 2015-02-13 and handful of packages without issues.

Attached is a port of the patch to 3.4.3. Please note that the test failed (because it used the old distutils package, I suspect) and the win32 path handling is a bit messed up, but I don't have time to fix that ATM. It works as expected during runtime.

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nosy: +mro
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file39545/Python-3.4.3-issue9674-3.patch

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