[Distutils] Wrong depedencies in install_lib command?

[P.J. Eby]

At 08:06 PM 2/11/2009 +0100, Patrick Gerken wrote:
>Hello,
>
>i tried to install reportlab via easy_install, which always failed 
>while compiling some c-modules.
>Installing it via setup.py install worked flawlessly
>
>After a while, I found the difference.
>setup.py install calls the command _build_, which calls _build_clib_ 
>and then _build_ext_
>
>easy_install calls _bdist_egg_, which calls _install_lib_, which 
>calls _build_ext_ WITHOUT calling _build_clib_.
>The module docstring of the command build_clib mentions, that these 
>libraries can be a dependency to build_ext, so I patched 
>install_lib.py to call build_clib too, and now I can easy_install 
>the newest reportlab!
>
>If anybody wants to reproduce the behaviour, I added my patch, which 
>I did against the current trunk of distutils/command/install_lib.py
>I made a relative patch so to patch the file. you have to go into 
>this directory and call
>
>patch install_lib.py dependency.patch
>
>Does this qualify as a bug in the bugtracker?

Yes, definitely.  It'd be nice to have a setuptools patch to 
workaround the problem as well.