On 11 May 2000, F. Oliver Gathmann said:

I was trying to get the new PyXML (v. 0.5.4) compiled with distutils v. 0.8.1, and besides some tweaking of pyexpat.c I had to make sure the directory path for the temporary import library was generated, as shown in the attached patch to build_ext.py (BTW, this was on a Win98 machine).

Hmmm, I thought someone else had reported this, and I thought it had been fixed. Can you try Distutils 0.8.2 and see if if it works any better?