Hi, This is very strange. I am also making packages (RPMs in my case). I do this as a normal user without write access to /usr/..... If running setup.py would have as a consequence that /usr/lib/....../install_headers.pyc would get overwritten, then setup.py would die. Can you tell if your python-2.1 is really 2.1 or 2.1.1? It happens that I am tweaking the setup.py script of Numeric and testing with python-2.1.1 and I am sure that distutils works. I suggest the following test: login as a normal user, unpack Numeric, cd Numeric and do python2.1 setup.py install --root=~/tmp This will install Numeric in ~/tmp/usr/lib/python2.1 and you will see if setup.py still tries to overwrite install_headers.pyc If so, your python2.1 is broken for some reason, if not your build system and/or sandbox are broken. Gerard

Hi!

I have noticed an interesting difference when installing Numeric-20.3 against python-2.1 vs. python-2.2.

When installing against python-2.1, setup trys to write to /usr/lib/python2.1/distutils/command/install_headers.pyc

But when installing against python-2.2, this doesn't happen.

Note: this question came up because I am making an ebuild (basically a compile and install script) for Gentoo linux, http://www.gentoo.org. The attempted write to install_headers.pyc with python-2.1 violates Gentoo's sandboxed build environment causing the merge to fail. If you are interested see

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21

Just curious if there is a known explanation for this. The simple fix on my end, is to set the dependency >=python-2.2.

Thanks for the great program!

tod

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