From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:42:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install.
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Bug #1594809: add a note to README regarding PYTHONPATH and make install.
 (backport from rev. 52754)
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diff --git a/README b/README
index fd5d4ff282..7e4c3aaa7f 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -223,6 +223,11 @@ old K&R-C-only compilers is no longer possible.  ANSI C compilers are
 available for all modern systems, either in the form of updated
 compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc).
 
+If "make install" fails mysteriously during the "compiling the library"
+step, make sure that you don't have any of the PYTHONPATH or PYTHONHOME
+environment variables set, as they may interfere with the newly built
+executable which is compiling the library.
+
 Unsupported systems
 -------------------