[Distutils] Setup script exited with error: build/ * /egg/EGG-INFO/zip-safe: No such file or directory

[P.J. Eby]

At 11:09 PM 8/24/2009 +0200, Nicolas Dumazet wrote:
>Hello! I am the maintainer of a small C extension, and after 
>uploading it to pypi, out of curiosity, I tried installing it using 
>easy_install. The error that easy_install returns is however quite 
>cryptic, and I have no idea of what is happening: $ easy_install -v 
>-n --install-dir /Users/junk/py-lib pyfsevents


Try:

   easy_install -eb. pyfsevents
   cd ./pyfsevents
   python -c "import setuptools; execfile('setup.py')" bdist_egg

This will leave the build directories in place, and may give you 
better error information about the problem.


>Checking existing site.py in /Users/junk/py-lib Searching for 
>pyfsevents Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyfsevents/ Reading 
>http://bitbucket.org/nicdumz/fsevents/ Found link: 
>http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyfsevents/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz#md5=edadbf0670ff96077fc05196817084e3 
>Best match: pyfsevents 0.1 Downloading 
>http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyfsevents/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz#md5=edadbf0670ff96077fc05196817084e3 
>Validating md5 checksum for 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz Processing 
>pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1// to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/ Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/BUGS to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/BUGS 
>Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples// to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/ Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/examples/proofofconcept.py to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/proofofconcept.py 
>Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/testwatcher.py to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/testwatcher.py 
>Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.py to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.py 
>Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.pyc to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.pyc 
>Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/INSTALL to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/INSTALL Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/LICENSE to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/LICENSE Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/PKG-INFO to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/PKG-INFO Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/pyfsevents.c to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/pyfsevents.c Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/README to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/README Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/readme.rst to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/readme.rst Unpacking 
>pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py to 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py Running 
>pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py -n bdist_egg --dist-dir 
>/tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/egg-dist-tmp-3dV2pZ running 
>bdist_egg running egg_info creating pyfsevents.egg-info writing 
>pyfsevents.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to 
>pyfsevents.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links to 
>pyfsevents.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing manifest file 
>'pyfsevents.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' writing manifest file 
>'pyfsevents.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' installing library code to 
>build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg running install_lib running 
>build_ext building 'pyfsevents' extension creating build creating 
>build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5 gcc -fno-strict-aliasing 
>-Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common 
>-dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DMACOSX 
>-I/usr/include/ffi -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe 
>-I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 
>-c pyfsevents.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.o 
>creating build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5 gcc -Wl,-F. -bundle 
>-undefined dynamic_lookup -arch i386 -arch ppc 
>build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.o -o 
>build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.so -framework 
>CoreFoundation -framework CoreServices creating 
>build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386 creating 
>build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg creating 
>build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/EGG-INFO zip_safe flag not set; 
>analyzing archive contents... error: Setup script exited with error: 
>build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/EGG-INFO/zip-safe: No such file or 
>directory Do we have a bug? Or simply a badly worded message? Note 
>that I did not expect easy_install to work out of the box without 
>configuration on my end, I am just surprised by the opaque error. 
>Troubleshooting the issue seems quite difficult. Even with 
>--build-directory , that build/bdist* repertory is not kept after 
>the error. Maybe -k should be passed to setup.py when -b is passed 
>to easy_install? Thanks, -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ 
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