[Distutils] setuptools bug: broken simlinks break setup()

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 01:51 PM 6/25/2007 -0700, Andrew Straw wrote:
>OK, I attach a fairly minimal python package. It builds fine normally.
>Now, if you add a broken symlink in the source tree, it fails to build.
>For example, "ln -s /broken broken.symlink" in the same directory as
>setup.py.

Tried it on Cygwin w/setuptools 0.6c6, nothing different happens with 
the symlink.  What platform are you on?