At 08:06 PM 2/11/2009 +0100, Patrick Gerken wrote:
Hello,
i tried to install reportlab via easy_install, which always failed
while compiling some c-modules.
Installing it via setup.py install worked flawlessly
After a while, I found the difference.
setup.py install calls the command _build_, which calls _build_clib_
and then _build_ext_
easy_install calls _bdist_egg_, which calls _install_lib_, which
calls _build_ext_ WITHOUT calling _build_clib_.
The module docstring of the command build_clib mentions, that these
libraries can be a dependency to build_ext, so I patched
install_lib.py to call build_clib too, and now I can easy_install
the newest reportlab!
If anybody wants to reproduce the behaviour, I added my patch, which
I did against the current trunk of distutils/command/install_lib.py
I made a relative patch so to patch the file. you have to go into
this directory and call
patch install_lib.py dependency.patch
Does this qualify as a bug in the bugtracker?
Yes, definitely. It'd be nice to have a setuptools patch to
workaround the problem as well.
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