[Python-Dev] "error: None" when building extensions under 2.6

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

Hello,

2008/8/23 Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com>:
> when I'm trying to build extensions under Python 2.6 on Windows XP, the
> build process terminates with single line that says:
>
>    error: None
>
> which is about as useless as an error message can be.  Googling for this
> brings up a few hits which all seem to involve setuptools (and none of the
> hits contain any answers), but I'm using straightforward distutils stuff
> that has worked without a glitch since 1.5.2.  Has anyone else seen this for
> 2.6?

I tried to rebuild some extensions, and it either succeeds,
or fails with a meaningful (for an expert) error message.

Which extensions did you try? is there some output before the error?

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc