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

[Aahz]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009, Ned Deily wrote:
> 
> Just for the record, I don't think this particular issue has anything 
> directly to do with either setuptools or python2.6.  IIUC, pyconfig.h is 
> needed for any packages (packaged with standard *distutils*) that 
> include any C extension modules.  From a quick glance at the py2app 
> code, it looks like, prior to r65, py2app did not copy pyconfig.h at 
> all.  That wouldn't lead to problems until you tried to install a C 
> extension module.

Well, I don't have any time to track down what happened a few weeks ago,
but it was definitely the case that setuptools was crashing due to a
missing pyconfig.h, and the Python 2.6 installation I was using didn't
have one.
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