[Distutils] Why using distutils.core.setup requires Python sources ?

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 12:03 AM 6/30/2006 +0200, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> > only the contents of "/usr/lib/python2.x/config/" -- the directory where
> > Python's build configuration information is copied upon installation.
>
>Its seems that my Mandriva Linux distro did not package this well:
>
>[j at localhost ~]$ rpm -q --all | grep --ignore-case python
>python-2.4.1-3mdk
>python-numeric-24.0-1mdk
>python-base-2.4.1-3mdk
>libpython2.4-2.4.1-3mdk
>libxml2-python-2.6.21-3mdk

You might first want to check if there is a 'python-dev' or 'python-devel' 
package you can install; some distributions only install the 'config' 
directory with such a package.


>[j at localhost ~]$
>[j at localhost ~]$ rpm -q --list $(rpm -q --all | grep --ignore-case
>python) | grep --ignore-case makefile
>[j at localhost ~]$
>[j at localhost ~]$ locate -i makefile | grep --ignore-case python
>/usr/share/doc/libidn11-0.5.18/contrib/idn-python/Makefile
>[j at localhost ~]$
>[j at localhost ~]$ rpm -q
>--whatprovides /usr/share/doc/libidn11-0.5.18/contrib/idn-python/Makefile
>libidn11-0.5.18-2mdk
>[j at localhost ~]$
>
>Maybe I should report this as a Mandriva bug.

What you've shown above is an unrelated Makefile.  It's likely that the 
needed 'config' directory is installed by another package that you don't 
currently have installed.

If there is no such package, or it doesn't install the 'config' directory, 
then you should indeed report a bug.