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Gentoo Linux, x86, Python 3.0a
I did a vanilla "./configure; make; make test; make altinstall" build.
The following files were created in /usr/local/bin:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18036 Sep 6 17:49 smtpd.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 81 Sep 6 17:49 pydoc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96 Sep 6 17:49 idle
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3644316 Sep 6 17:58 python3.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1401 Sep 6 17:59 python3.0-config
As intended, altinstall does not create /usr/local/bin/python, so
"python" is still the pre-existing python2.5.
However, other binaries are installed as though /usr/local/bin/python
were created, so they don't work.
dripton@al ~ $ pydoc
bash: /usr/local/bin/pydoc: /usr/local/bin/python: bad interpreter: No
such file or directory
dripton@al ~ $ idle
bash: /usr/local/bin/idle: /usr/local/bin/python: bad interpreter: No
such file or directory
dripton@al ~ $ smtpd.py
bash: /usr/local/bin/smtpd.py: /usr/local/bin/python: bad interpreter:
No such file or directory
Suggest that "make altinstall" should not put anything in the bin
directory except pythonX.Y and pythonX.Y-config, which are "safe"
because of the embedded version numbers. Another option would be
installing those other binaries but with fixed shebang lines.

Fixed in rev. 58125, should be merged to 3k shortly. Thanks!