Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] fix tools compile issue on sles 10

[Ryan Grimm <grimm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:42:49PM -0500, Ryan Grimm wrote:
> 
> > With sles 10, 'make tools' produces the following:
> > 
> > CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -m32 -march=i686 -Wall
> > -Wstrict-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> > -D__XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__=0x00030101" python setup.py install
> > --home="/root/xen/xen-unstable.hg/dist/install/usr" --force
> > running install
> > error: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both
> > make[2]: *** [install] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/xen/xen-unstable.hg/tools/python'
> > make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/xen/xen-unstable.hg/tools'
> > make: *** [install-tools] Error 2
> > 
> > there have been a couple other posts about this:
> > 
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-03/msg00565.html
> > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2006-04/msg00090.html
> > 
> > prefix is being passed along for some reason. this patch is a simple fix
> > that will make sure prefix is not defined. 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ryan Grimm <grimm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I'd rather we understood _where_ this mysterious new parameter is coming from,
> than just hiding it like this.  Anyone got any ideas?
> 
> Ewan.

sles 10 includes a distutils.cfg in /usr/lib/python/distutils/ that
defines the following:

[install]
prefix=/usr/local

this can be overridden by including an empty --prefix in the Makefile or
including a local setup.cfg in the tools/python directory that defines
an empty prefix.  since --home is already defined in the makefile, i
think it makes sense to override --prefix in the makefile.

-- 
Thanks,
Ryan Grimm
IBM Linux Technology Center

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