[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app DistUtilsPlatformError[Sec=Unclassified]

[Aahz]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <20090923163646.GA26464 at panix.com>,
>  Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, Christopher Barker wrote:
>> > Aahz wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, mathew oakes wrote:
>> >
>> >>>> DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: unable to
>> >>>> open 
>> >>>> /Full/Path/To/App.app/Contents/Resources/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h 
>> >>>> (No such file or directory)
>> >>> but python in in the bundle at .../Resources/lib/ and it doesn't have a
>> >>> pyconfig header
>> >>
>> >> Ayup, you need to copy it from python2.5 -- pretty annoying.
>> >
>> > Indeed. Does anyone know what pyconfig.h is used for? Is it a setuptools  
>> > thing? py2app was written before setuptools, and I've found most of what  
>> > I've had to do by hand was due to egg issues.
>> 
>> It's a setuptools thing.
> 
> I believe pyconfig.h is created by the compiler build ./configure script 
> to capture the relevant platform-dependent build configuration for that 
> python instance and is used by distutils build_ext so that package C 
> extensions can be correctly built.

It's not included in the .dmg for Python 2.6.
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