At 10:43 AM 6/26/2007 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
This is an ongoing problem for me with emacs, which intentionally uses broken links to implement lock files. Arguably, this is emacs' fault, but I'd love to see a change to setuptools that made it ignore broken links.
Jim
Actually, as it turns out, it's distutils fault (well, the error is, anyway): $ DISTUTILS_DEBUG=y python2.3 setup.py develop ... Traceback (most recent call last): ... File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/filelist.py", line 48, in findall self.allfiles = findall(dir) File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/filelist.py", line 298, in findall stat = os.stat(fullname) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'broken.symlink' I'll add a workaround in setuptools, but somebody should fix the distutils, too. It looks like the 'findall()' function should be reimplemented with 'os.walk()'.