Distutils is undergoing heavy changes in the hands of Tarek Ziade. One of the changes is drastically improving the test coverage.<br><br>I would definitely discuss the problem with him (directly or on distutils-sig) as he will want to know about it - either to explain why the change is necessary and help you modify the pywin32 setup.py or to revert the change.<br>
<br>Michael Foord<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/19 Tim Golden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@timgolden.me.uk">mail@timgolden.me.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Something in the changes to build_ext.py in r72585 has broken the setup.py build for pywin32:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py?r1=72531&r2=72585&pathrev=72585" target="_blank">http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py?r1=72531&r2=72585&pathrev=72585</a><br>
<br>
The symptom is that pywintypes.lib is created in the<br>
build directory, but distutils is then looking to<br>
copy pywintypes27.lib (note the version suffix):<br>
<br>
error: can't copy 'build\temp.win32-2.7\Release\win32\src\pywintypes27.lib': doesn't exist or not a regular file<br>
<br>
The error is also present in the release26-maint branch.<br>
<br>
I've just started to try to work out where exactly the problem<br>
lies and whether it's an ill-tested distutils change or a false<br>
assumption in the pywin32 setup.py. Or something else.<br>
<br>
Since distutils is a notorious maze of twisty modules, all alike,<br>
and since the pywin32 setup.py is hardly a model of simplicity,<br>
if anyone has immediate insights I'd be glad to hear them.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<br>
TJG<br>
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