[Distutils] Buildbot throwing a gear after default setup?

[ssteinerX@gmail.com]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 3:47 PM, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:

> On 04:24 pm, ziade.tarek at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM, ssteinerX at gmail.com
>> <ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> precisely:
>>>> python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout -c buildbot.cfg
>>>
>>> ssteiner at ubuntu:~/distutils-builbot$ python bootstrap.py && bin/ 
>>> buildout -c
>>> buildbot.cfg
>>> Downloading
>>> http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c9-py2.6.egg
>>> Getting distribution for 'Twisted'.
>>> twisted/runner/portmap.c:10:20: error: Python.h: No such file or  
>>> directory
>>
>> Buildbot needs Twisted, so it needs the 'python-dev' to compile on  
>> ubuntu.
>>
>> $ apt-get install python-dev
>> $ apt-get install build-essentials
>> (should be enough)
>
> Almost all of Twisted's extension modules are optional (and portmap  
> is hardly useful, I doubt anyone would miss it if it were gone).   
> This failure reminds me that it would be nice if distutils had a way  
> to express this.

So, is this something I have to install in addition to the way  
Twisted's being installed now?

I'm working on setting up the buildbot automatically on a cloud server  
and all these errors are what happen if you start from a plain-vanilla  
Ubuntu 9.0.4 and try to just bootstrap the distutils buildbot.

S