[Distutils] Distribute: will not build on Python 3 with --install-XXX arguments

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Mar 6 14:20:30 CET 2013


On 6 March 2013 12:50, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Still no joy with the uninstalled setuptools, then? It seemed to work for me without any special work, but that was on Linux.

Yeah, again it seems to be subtle environmental issues. Sometimes it
works, sometimes it doesn't, never with a useful error message :-(

It's mainly for setup.py - the hooks that override normal distutils
functionality seem to be the flaky bit. The errors generally seem to
be coming from core distutils, when I should be running setuptools
(things like "unknown option, --single-version-externally-managed"
even though setuptools is on sys.path).

Not worth wasting any more time over, in my opinion.
Paul.


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