Hello, * A.T.Hofkamp wrote on Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 09:36:45AM CEST: > As far as I know, "make install prefix=/path/to/writable/dir" should > only change the place where files are copied to, instead of > injecting that new prefix into the source code. However, for Python > source files that are generated/modified during installation, this > does not seem to hold:
> ------------- Makefile.am > prefix=@prefix@ > exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@ > libexecdir = @libexecdir@ > libdir = @libdir@ > > PYTHON_VERSION=@PYTHON_VERSION@ > SITEPACKAGES=$(libdir)/python$(PYTHON_VERSION)/site-packages > SED=@sed@ > > prog_PYTHON=prog/__init__.py prog/x.py > progdir = $(SITEPACKAGES)/prog > > prog/x.py: x.src > $(SED) -e "s,%LIBEXEC%,$(libexecdir)," < x.src > prog/x.py Looks like it. Can you work around this issue by adding all-local: $(prog_PYTHON) to the Makefile.am? Thanks for the report, Ralf
