[issue4655] during Python installation, setup.py should not use .pydistutils.cfg

[Ned Deily]

Ned Deily added the comment:

rdm notes in duplicate Issue6138:

There is a bug here, of some sort.  Either the .pydistutils.cfg file's
install clause should override the default --prefix somehow, or the
error message should indicate where the setting for 'home' and
'--prefix' came from to enable the user to debug the configuration.  In
the latter case there would also need to be a way to explicitly tell
either make install or configure to ignore .pydistutils.cfg.  In the
former case, an explicit --prefix passed to configure would need to
override .pydistutils.cfg.

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nosy: +ned.deily, r.david.murray -BreamoreBoy
versions: +Python 3.3, Python 3.4 -Python 3.1

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