[Distutils] An internal error occurred due to a bug in either zc.buildout or in a recipe being used

[Jim Fulton]

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Herson <hersonls at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well guys, I'm having trouble running buildout on Mac OSX leopard. My
> environment consists of:
>
> buildout.cfg:
>
> [buildout]
> parts = python
> develop = .
> eggs = teste
>
> [python]
> recipe = zc.recipe.egg
> interpreter = python
> eggs = ${buildout:eggs}
>
> I run the:
>
> $ python bootstrap.py

...

> And run the ./bin/buildout
>
> $ ./bin/buildout
> Develop: '/Users/hersonls/Code/Python/zc.Buildout/teste/.'
> While:
>   Installing.
>   Processing develop directory
> '/Users/hersonls/Code/Python/zc.Buildout/teste/.'.
>
> An internal error occurred due to a bug in either zc.buildout or in a
> recipe being used:

...

>   File
> "/private/var/folders/Jp/Jp9P8zk3E9yRgo+ZL4wnx++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpqdrwgm/zc.buildout-1.5.2-py2.6.egg/zc/buildout/easy_install.py",
> line 1191, in develop
>   File
> "/private/var/folders/Jp/Jp9P8zk3E9yRgo+ZL4wnx++++TI/-Tmp-/tmpqdrwgm/zc.buildout-1.5.2-py2.6.egg/zc/buildout/easy_install.py",
> line 1124, in _copyeggs
> AssertionError: []
>
> Initially I had no issues with buildout, this problem appeared suddenly in a
> new project.
>
> Can someone give me a light that might be?

It's trying to copy egg link files that should have been produced by
running the setup develop command, and didn't find any. Could there be
something wrong/odd with the setup file? It's hard for me to say,
since I can't see the setup file.

Jim

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