[Distutils] *ugh* - failure to easy_install numpy

[skip at pobox.com]

I have a new-ish MacBook Pro.  When I installed it I used Apple's migration
assitant to transfer content from my PowerBook.  That left me with lots of
Mach-O PPC shared object files.  I've been sort of working my way through
replacing things.

Today I tried reinstalling numpy using easy_install (had been 1.0.1 in
Mach-O PPC format, should wind up with 1.0.4 in Mach-O Intel format).  I got
this rather ugly output:

    % easy_install numpy
    /Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/package_index.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
      from md5 import md5
    Searching for numpy
    Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/numpy/
    Reading http://numeric.scipy.org
    Reading http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=175103
    Reading http://numpy.scipy.org
    Best match: numpy 1.0.4
    Downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/numpy/numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz?modtime=1194536674&big_mirror=0
    Processing numpy-1.0.4.tar.gz
    Running numpy-1.0.4/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/egg-dist-tmp-X0k4SP
    Running from numpy source directory.
    non-existing path in '/private/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils': 'site.cfg'
    /var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py:1278: DeprecationWarning: os.popen4 is deprecated.  Use the subprocess module.
      sin, sout = os.popen4('svnversion')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/skip/local/bin/easy_install", line 8, in <module>
        load_entry_point('setuptools==0.6c7', 'console_scripts', 'easy_install')()
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1670, in main
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1659, in with_ei_usage
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 1674, in <lambda>
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
        dist.run_commands()
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
        self.run_command(cmd)
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/distutils/dist.py", line 994, in run_command
        cmd_obj.run()
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 211, in run
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 446, in easy_install
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 471, in install_item
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 655, in install_eggs
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 930, in build_and_install
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/command/easy_install.py", line 919, in run_setup
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 27, in run_setup
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 63, in run
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/setuptools-0.6c7-py2.6.egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 29, in <lambda>
      File "setup.py", line 89, in <module>
      File "setup.py", line 82, in setup_package
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/core.py", line 145, in setup
      File "setup.py", line 49, in configuration
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 834, in add_subpackage
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 817, in get_subpackage
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 764, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
      File "numpy/setup.py", line 9, in configuration
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 834, in add_subpackage
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 817, in get_subpackage
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/misc_util.py", line 764, in _get_configuration_from_setup_py
      File "/private/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/core/setup.py", line 246, in configuration
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 267, in get_info
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 366, in __init__
      File "/var/folders/5q/5qTPn6xq2RaWqk+1Ytw3-U+++TI/-Tmp-/easy_install-dLgdmR/numpy-1.0.4/numpy/distutils/system_info.py", line 374, in parse_config_files
      File "/Users/skip/local/lib/python2.6/ConfigParser.py", line 242, in add_section
        raise ValueError, 'Invalid section name: %s' % section
    ValueError: Invalid section name: DEFAULT

Any idea what the problem might be?  I'm using easy_install 0.6c7 with
Python 2.6 (Subversion checkout).  I don't know if 0.6c7 is the most recent
version or not.

Thanks,

-- 
Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/