id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
703	"""make install PREFIX="" fails (install outside of source in custom directory)"	nejucomo	zooko	"According to InstallDetails:

{{{The ""make install"" target is a wrapper around ""setup.py install"" that uses --single-version-externally-managed to bypass the extra checking that setuptools does. This allows ""make install"" and ""make install PREFIX=/usr/local"" to work the same way as traditional unix software (via GNU autoconf, etc).}}}

This entire sequence of commands succeeds:
{{{
$ python ./setup.py build
$ python ./setup.py test # 0 unexpected errors
$ mkdir /usr/local/stow/allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1
$ make install PREFIX=/usr/local/stow/allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1/
$ cd /usr/local/stow
$ sudo stow allmydata-tahoe-1.4.1/
# cd ~; which tahoe
}}}

The output of which shows /usr/local/bin/tahoe as expected.

Yet some dependency or packaging issue is not configured correctly:

{{{
$ tahoe --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ""/usr/local/bin/tahoe"", line 5, in <module>
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py"", line 2562, in <module>
    working_set.require(__requires__)
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py"", line 626, in require
    needed = self.resolve(parse_requirements(requirements))
  File ""/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pkg_resources.py"", line 524, in resolve
    raise DistributionNotFound(req)  # XXX put more info here
pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: allmydata-tahoe==1.4.1
}}}

This ticket is satisfied when this use case succeeds and the AdvancedInstall documentation specifies the proper procedure.
"	defect	closed	minor	1.10.1	packaging	1.4.1	fixed	setuptools install test-needed