At 12:23 PM 6/25/2007 -0700, Andrew Straw wrote: >In setuptools 0.6c5, a broken symlink in the package tree will cause >'setup develop' to fail, even in the file is inconsequential for the >package. I think this is a bug. > >Here is the output of running "python setup.py develop" in a package >called flydra with a broken symlink called broken.symlink: > >running develop >running egg_info >writing flydra.egg-info/PKG-INFO >writing top-level names to flydra.egg-info/top_level.txt >writing dependency_links to flydra.egg-info/dependency_links.txt >writing entry points to flydra.egg-info/entry_points.txt >error: broken.symlink: No such file or directory > >(I would try this using setuptools==dev, but it seems svn.python.org is >down, or at least my connection to it.)
Uh, where is this broken symlink exactly, and what does it point to? What is the contents of your setup.py? IOW, a minimal data set for reproducing the error would be helpful, as right now I don't have any idea where to begin looking for this. _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
