Fwd: [XML-SIG] [ pyxml-Bugs-581175 ] Bad bangpath for scripts on install (e.g

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 13:48, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> writes:
> 
> > No.  It's merely a clear sign that distutils has modified them.  
> > Unfortunately, it has done so incorrectly.
> 
> It is also a sign that there is something broken in the Python
> installation; distutils couldn't possibly make this value up.
> 
> So maybe Juergen's theory is right that the installation was
> configured for a different directory than it is installed into.

No.  The --prefix I used on ./configure is exactly where it remains. 
I'll trace the problem through distutils, as you suggest.  The reason I
didn't just do this before filing the bug report was that I didn't want
to spend too much time on this problem, but I think it's raised enough
discussion that I should help bring it to closure.


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