[Distutils] problem compiling on SGI IRIX 6.5

[Curtis Jensen]

Mona Wong wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>         I've just downloaded Distutils 0.1.3 and tried to compile it on my
> SGI IRIX 6.5 machine.  I am using python 1.5.1.
> 
>         Here is what I got:
> 
> proteus:/p12/src/Distutils-0.1.3) python setup.py install
> running install
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "setup.py", line 13, in ?
>     setup (name = "Distutils",
>   File "distutils/core.py", line 102, in setup
>     raise SystemExit, "error: %s: %s" % (exc.filename, exc.strerror)
> AttributeError: filename
> 
>         What is wrong and how do I fix this?
> 
>         By the way, I just signed up to be on this list but have not received
> the confirmation yet so please reply back to me personally to be sure that I
> am getting your responses.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mona
> 
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I use IRIX 6.5 also.  I'm not sure why you're getting your error, but I
seem to remember that there was some issue with Python 1.5.1 and
Distutils.  If you upgrade to Python 1.5.2, some bugs get fixed.  Try
that.

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