[Distutils] distutils + CVS Python prob. -- or is my installation broken?

[Jack Jansen]

I think this is the result of a recent checkin that replaced "2.2+" with 
"2.3a0" in the version string.

But: that fix was especially done for distutils, if I remember the 
checkin message corretly...

On Monday, February 11, 2002, at 04:47 , Just van Rossum wrote:

> I'm running into an odd problem with CVS Python:
>
>   running build_ext
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>   [ ... ]
>     File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 434, in
> get_config_vars
>       func()
>     File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 322, in
> _init_posix
>       raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
>   distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: 
> unable
> to open /usr/local/lib/python2.3/config/Makefile (No such file or 
> directory)
>
>
> This is my Python version, freshly checked out from CVS:
> Python 2.3a0 (#22, Feb 11 2002, 16:05:10)
>
>
> So distutils is looking for /usr/local/lib/python2.3, whereas the lib 
> is still
> in /usr/local/lib/python2.2. Is my install broken or is distutils 
> confused?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Just
>
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