hi, we run http://www.blastwave.org and try to install http://genshi.edgewall.org which bails out with (btw, the same happens with mercurial version control): # ls -l /opt/csw/lib/libpython2.5.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 18 23:14 /opt/csw/lib/ libpython2.5.so -> libpython2.5.so.1.0 # easy_install --prefix /opt/csw/testing genshi Searching for genshi Best match: Genshi 0.6dev-r914 Processing Genshi-0.6dev_r914-py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg Genshi 0.6dev-r914 is already the active version in easy-install.pth Using /opt/csw/testing/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.6dev_r914- py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg Processing dependencies for genshi Finished processing dependencies for genshi root@chvp011vs035 / # rm /opt/csw/testing/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Genshi-0.6dev_r914- py2.5-solaris-2.10-sun4v.egg root@chvp011vs035 / # easy_install --prefix /opt/csw/testing genshi Searching for genshi Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/genshi/ Couldn't find index page for 'genshi' (maybe misspelled?) Scanning index of all packages (this may take a while) Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/ Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/Genshi/ Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/ Reading http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Download Best match: Genshi 0.5.1 Downloading http://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/genshi/Genshi-0.5.1.zip Processing Genshi-0.5.1.zip Running Genshi-0.5.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/ easy_install-kz7muh/Genshi-0.5.1/egg-dist-tmp--y0Vju warning: no previously-included files found matching 'doc/ 2000ft.graffle' warning: no previously-included files matching '*' found under directory 'doc/logo.lineform' ld: fatal: library -lpython2.5: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to build/ lib.solaris-2.10-sun4v-2.5/genshi/_speedups.so ********************************************************************** WARNING: An optional C extension could not be compiled, speedups will not be available. ********************************************************************** error: Setup script exited with error: can't copy 'Genshi.egg-info/ native_libs.txt': doesn't exist or not a regular file anybody has an idea how to convince setuptools to use the python library? python works and it should be in the library path though.