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Aaron Bentley (abentley) wrote : Re: [Bug 219489] [NEW] setup.py puts bzrlib in wrong place

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Jakob wrote:
> Public bug reported:
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> When installing bzr using the setup.py utility, the bzrlib is put into $PREFIX/lib/python/
> This is a bit unfortunate, because python libraries/modules are installed in $PREFIX/lib/pythonx.x/ with x.x for example 2.4 or 2.5 for the version of python. So you are forced to set your PYTHONPATH, whilst bzrlib could just as well be installed directly into the pythonx.x directory
> (actually, my way of working is to copy the whole thing manually to that dir)

This sounds like a local configuration issue. Could you please describe:
- - what commandline you are using
- - what platform you are doing this on
- - what version of distutils and setuptools you have
- - what are the contents of site-packages/distutils.cfg

Aaron
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