[issue4369] Error building to a nonstandard prefix (with patch)

[Giuseppe Ottaviano]

New submission from Giuseppe Ottaviano <giuott at gmail.com>:

Hi all,
I am trying to compile python 2.6 using a user directory as prefix. In
the the byte-compiling step of install, compileall.py fails to load all
the .so modules (it fails for zlib.so and raises an exception for
unicodedata.so), so the build fails. I think it is because python is
invoked by the makefile with the env variables

	PYTHONPATH=$(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST)

while the .so are in $(LIBDEST)/lib-dynload .

Setting PYTHONHOME instead of PYTHONPATH works for me (but i do not know
if it breaks anything else):

	PYTHONHOME=$(exec_prefix)

The patch is attached.

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components: Build
files: make.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 76120
nosy: ot
severity: normal
status: open
title: Error building to a nonstandard prefix (with patch)
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file12076/make.patch

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