Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Attempt to build xen-unstable on Ubuntu 9.04 Server (Ubuntu Desktop installed)

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/05/2009 15:16, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Perhaps config/*.mk should define DEFAULT_PREFIX and PREFIX, and we omit
>> --prefix= to Python installer if the two are equal?
> 
> That would be one way to do it but sadly it's not sufficient.  On
> pre-jaunty Ubuntu systems (and many others), omitting --prefix puts
> everything in /usr which is also wrong.
> 
> I think the right answer is to provide a way to suppress the --prefix
> explicitly.  That will provide a workaround to people with the broken
> python setup, without making things go wrong for anyone else.

Is this not a generic Python26 problem then, but an Ubuntu (not even a
Debian upstream) customisation?

 -- Keir



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