fix the Makefile so it doesn't pollute sys.path

#4349 reviewed by Christian

diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 0e15725693640d6dbbe0b8424aaf2d38ecb475b4..9e01d84bc973060e65f826192c5b2b978405018c 100644 (file)
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -801,7 +801,6 @@ maninstall:
 # Install the library
 PLATDIR=       plat-$(MACHDEP)
 EXTRAPLATDIR= @EXTRAPLATDIR@
-EXTRAMACHDEPPATH=@EXTRAMACHDEPPATH@
 MACHDEPS=      $(PLATDIR) $(EXTRAPLATDIR)
 XMLLIBSUBDIRS=  xml xml/dom xml/etree xml/parsers xml/sax
 LIBSUBDIRS=    tkinter site-packages test test/output test/data \

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index acedeb1d4b6aeb9bca566233ce97fa907f9421ea..45e965bc6d191fa4a55f0de6634a4953e7eb852a 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.0 release candiate 3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #4349: sys.path included a non-existent platform directory because of a
+  faulty Makefile.
+
 - Issue #3327: Don't overallocate in the modules_by_index list.
 
 - Issue #1721812:  Binary set operations and copy() returned the input type