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easy_install installation location not controlled by --prefix

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Hi, Spack developer here.

One of our users noticed that when setuptools is installed, it tries to install its easy_install.py file to the site-packages directory of the Python installation, even though we explicitly provide an alternate --prefix to install to. This is particularly a problem for users who use a system Python with Spack that they don’t have install permissions to. Is there some other way to tell easy_install.py where to install to besides the --prefix option of setup.py install? See https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/13738 and https://github.com/spack/spack/issues/13955 for the original issues.

@LDAmorim @ax3l

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Created 4 years ago
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abravalhericommented, Jan 17, 2022

@adamjstewart @LDAmorim @ax3l, please also notice that using python -s might be problematic. The current version of setuptools rely on a .pth file to load the correct version of distutils. This is required during the transition period while distutils is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from the stdlib (i.e. will be necessary until the EoL of 3.11).

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adamjstewartcommented, Jan 17, 2022

Getting back to the original issue, @LDAmorim @ax3l can you try to reproduce this with the tip of develop in Spack? If you can’t reproduce the issue anymore then I’m guessing this has been fixed (either in setuptools or in Spack).

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