[Zope] Install 2.9.2 fails with "error: must supply either home or prefix/exec-prefix -- not both"

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 17 Apr 2006, at 12:02, Jerry Westrick wrote:

> On Monday 17 April 2006 11:10, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
>>> My question now is this a bug in Zope 2.9.2 installation, or in
>>> SUSE 10.1 RC1?
>>> The answer to that will decide where I look to fix it....
>>
>> Very simple test: Compile Python yourself. Do not use the
>> distribution package. Then try building Zope 2.9.2 against the self-
>> compiled Python. If it works fine then it's a SuSE fault.
>>
>> Python packages shipped with distributions are known to show various
>> weirdnesses. For production setups I would never even consider using
>> the built-in Python, regardless of distribution.
>>
>> jens
>
>
> Well Jens, I disagree.
>
> If I where to build my own python, I would have to do formal testing
> on all packages which require python, which are quite a few.

I think you misunderstand what I am saying. I did not tell you to  
*replace* the system Python. By default, the Python source package  
installs into /usr/local.

jens


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