[Python-Dev] "error: None" when building extensions under 2.6
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Sun Aug 24 11:49:26 CEST 2008
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
>> 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?
pick any:
http://effbot.org/downloads/
;-)
I'm beginning to suspect that I have a botched VS install on this
machine, though. I'll investigate.
</F>
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