[Distutils] Sandbox violation help

Robert Kern robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 21:48:33 CET 2007


Dave Peterson wrote:
> Most of us here are not seeing this
> error so I'm thinking it isn't something obviously wrong with the 
> setup.py. You can look at the setup.py at :
> 
> https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/browser/tags/enthought.interpolate_2.0.0b3/setup.py
> 
> Note that this project does use numpy.distutils' setup function. Perhaps 
> the error has something to do with that?

enthought.interpolate uses weave to built its extension module. weave uses
~/.python24_compiled as its location for the temporaries. We need to fix weave
to not do this, or rewrite the extension not to use weave. The latter is
probably best.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco



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