Message 182481 - Python tracker

Sorry, I'm unable to reproduce your results and they look rather suspicious.  Keep in mind that the Python build uses its copy of Distutils to build and install the interpreter's shared extension modules, like _ctypes.so.  My guess is that your "make install" is being influenced by settings in a Distutils configuration file, such as ~/.pydistutils.cfg.  If so, this is a duplicate of Issue4655.

http://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html#distutils-configuration-files