Hans Meine wrote: > Hi Ian, > > recently I reported this problem to you: >> [...] here at our university, python (as >> well as hundreds of other software packages) is installed in a shared NFS >> tree with a clear separation of --prefix and --exec-prefix, i.e. all >> platform-specific stuff goes into the according subdirectories. [...] > >> [2] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ -> virtualenv enthought-inst >> New python executable in enthought-inst/bin/python >> Installing setuptools.... >> Complete output from command enthought-inst/bin/python -c "#!python >> \"\"\"Bootstrap setuptoo... >> >> >> >> >> " /software/python-2.4.4/SuSE-10...4.egg: >> error: invalid Python installation: unable to >> open /software/python-2.4.4/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile (No such file or >> directory) >> >> [The message] is right, because it should be >> /software/python-2.4.4/SuSE-10.2/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile >> which exists (in the SuSE-10.2 directory). > > I have now debugged this a little bit (using virtualenv from SVN), and it > seems to be a problem with the virtualenv'd python and setuptools. I have > written the EZ_SETUP_PY to disk, and when I mimick virtualenv's command for > installing setuptools, I get the error: > > [2] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Programming/enthought -> > inst/bin/python ../ez_setup.py -v > /home/meine/Programming/virtualenv-svn/support-files/setuptools-0.6c8-py2.4.egg > error: invalid Python installation: unable to > open /software/python-2.4.4/lib/python2.4/config/Makefile (No such file or > directory) > > (NB: inst is the virtual env) OTOH, when I run this with the python binary > from its original location, it works fine. Since the error comes from deep > within setuptools (AFAICS), should this be discussed on distutils-sig?
Hmm... well, does this error only happen when you create a virtualenv from within a virtualenv? Otherwise, I think there's several things in distutils.sysconfig that need to be adjusted. That module isn't really documented, however, and I suspect there's just a bunch of things that will have to be added to over time, not a good general fix. Or... maybe there's some clever way to fix all these, but I'm not sure. -- Ian Bicking : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://blog.ianbicking.org _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
