Out of curiosity, how does pip handle this?
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:28, Adam GROSZER <agros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/14/2011 07:50 PM, P.J. Eby wrote: >> >> At 03:40 PM 3/14/2011 +0100, Adam GROSZER wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Having problems here installing >>> >>> http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/r/reportlab/reportlab-2.5.win-amd64-py2.6.exe >>> . Neither setuptools 0.6c11 nor distribute 0.6.14 gets it right. >>> >>> We don't have and don't want to have a compiler on the server, so we >>> need rely on binary packages. >>> >>> - setuptools just fails miserably even with easy_install: >>> http://paste.lisp.org/+2KZD >>> - distribute installs it (tho in a ...-win32.egg folder): >>> http://paste.lisp.org/+2KZE >>> - zc.buildout cannot install it with distribute, because it wants to >>> use the source tarball (and we don't have a compiler) or when I make >>> it not to be able to see the tarball, it does not find the >>> reportlab-2.5.win-amd64-py2.6.exe. I guess it does not get the >>> platform right. >>> >>> Any hints? >> >> Run "python -c 'import pkg_resources;print >> pkg_resources.get_build_platform()'" (with the Python interpreter you're >> using. > > D:\install>c:\Python26_64\python.exe > Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> import pkg_resources;print pkg_resources.get_build_platform() > win-amd64 >>>> > >> (By the way, I think from the log you gave, that reportlab may in fact >> be installed and usable on your machine, despite the attempt to download >> it a second time and build it from source. But I could be wrong.) >> > > Might be, but zc.buildout errs out if it detects an error by the underlying > installer. And I *want* to have reportlab installed by zc.buildout. > -- > Best regards, > Adam GROSZER > -- > Quote of the day: > Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand. > - George Eliot > _______________________________________________ > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig > _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
