Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
This cannot work on all platforms, when our Makefile is not shipped with python but python-devel. (like Fedora)
This practice is stupid anyway, because it means you have to install python-devel even to install pure Python packages with setuptools/distribute. Just ask Fedora, Mandriva and friends to change their packaging practice (Mandriva already has a bug open for that by the way).
In Debian/Ubuntu, the Makefile is correctly part of the main Python package:
$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile python2.5: /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile For what it's worth, this is fixed in Fedora as of python-2.6.4-2.fc13 ;
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 12:42 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote: the bug tracking it was: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531901