[Distutils] [SOLVED] Confounded by unhelpful error message.

[Éric Araujo]

Hi,

Le 11/05/2012 13:52, Robert Park a écrit :
> Naturally I'd forgotten to install the rpm-build package, this solves
> everything.

Thank you for sending the answer, this can be helpful for other people.

I thought about suggesting you were maybe missing rpm or rpmbuild, but 
decided not to send that thought because you had said “rpm and distutils 
are both installed”.  I never really looked into the bdist_rpm code, and 
I have no idea of how rpm works.  I should learn a bit more when I find 
time to work on http://bugs.python.org/issue11122

> I'm still shaking my head at that *awful* error message though.

Yep, lying about the file that’s missing is definitely not good.  I’ll 
investigate distutils.spawn to see if I can fix that.

Cheers