From: "Jack Jansen" <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.nl>

Folks, I just submitted a bug report (509288) that the path conversion that needs to be done for all pathnames, converting from URLs (or unix pathnames, depending on your point of view) to local convention is missing for package_dir.

Does this patch fix the problem? Thomas Index: build_py.py =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/python/python/dist/src/Lib/distutils/command/build_py.py,v retrieving revision 1.34 diff -c -r1.34 build_py.py *** build_py.py 2001/12/06 20:59:17 1.34 --- build_py.py 2002/01/28 09:38:55 *************** *** 12,17 **** --- 12,18 ---- from distutils.core import Command from distutils.errors import * + from distutils.util import convert_path class build_py (Command): *************** *** 50,56 **** # options -- list of packages and list of modules. self.packages = self.distribution.packages self.py_modules = self.distribution.py_modules ! self.package_dir = self.distribution.package_dir # Ick, copied straight from install_lib.py (fancy_getopt needs a # type system! Hell, *everything* needs a type system!!!) --- 51,59 ---- # options -- list of packages and list of modules. self.packages = self.distribution.packages self.py_modules = self.distribution.py_modules ! self.package_dir = {} ! for name, path in self.distribution.package_dir.items(): ! self.package_dir[name] = convert_path(path) # Ick, copied straight from install_lib.py (fancy_getopt needs a # type system! Hell, *everything* needs a type system!!!)