[Distutils] my setup.py eats all the memory in my machine

[Stuart Axon]

Hello All,


If I run  python setup.py install  from my project [ https://github.com/stuaxo/vext.pygtk ]
inside a virtualenv, the python process promptly uses more memory than the machine has and dies.


I was able to hit ctrl-c before it locked up my machine and got the output:


running install
running bdist_egg
running egg_info
writing requirements to vext.pygtk.egg-info/requires.txt
writing vext.pygtk.egg-info/PKG-INFO
writing top-level names to vext.pygtk.egg-info/top_level.txt
writing dependency_links to vext.pygtk.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
reading manifest file 'vext.pygtk.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
writing manifest file 'vext.pygtk.egg-info/SOURCES.txt'
installing library code to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_lib
warning: install_lib: 'build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.7' does not exist -- no Python modules to install

installing package data to build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
running install_data
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg
creating build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying vext.pygtk.egg-info/PKG-INFO -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying vext.pygtk.egg-info/SOURCES.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying vext.pygtk.egg-info/dependency_links.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying vext.pygtk.egg-info/requires.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
copying vext.pygtk.egg-info/top_level.txt -> build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg/EGG-INFO
zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents...
creating 'dist/vext.pygtk-0.1.1-py2.7.egg' and adding 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' to it
removing 'build/bdist.linux-x86_64/egg' (and everything under it)
Processing vext.pygtk-0.1.1-py2.7.egg
Removing /mnt/data/home/stu/.virtualenvs/tmpv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vext.pygtk-0.1.1-py2.7.egg
Copying vext.pygtk-0.1.1-py2.7.egg to /mnt/data/home/stu/.virtualenvs/tmpv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
vext.pygtk 0.1.1 is already the active version in easy-install.pth

Installed /mnt/data/home/stu/.virtualenvs/tmpv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vext.pygtk-0.1.1-py2.7.egg
Processing dependencies for vext.pygtk==0.1.1
Searching for vext
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/vext/
Best match: vext 0.1.1
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/vext/vext-0.1.1.tar.gz#md5=903962476d18a0125b2fa3fc7b42a56a
Processing vext-0.1.1.tar.gz
Writing /tmp/easy_install-MC0DcL/vext-0.1.1/setup.cfg
Running vext-0.1.1/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-MC0DcL/vext-0.1.1/egg-dist-tmp-Od4X7D