[Distutils] setuptools bug: broken simlinks break setup()

[Jim Fulton]

This is an ongoing problem for me with emacs, which intentionally  
uses broken links to implement lock files.  Arguably, this is emacs'  
fault, but I'd love to see a change to setuptools that made it ignore  
broken links.

Jim

On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:

> I just tried it and saw the error as Andrew described.
>
> On 6/25/07, Andrew Straw <strawman at astraw.com> wrote:
>> Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>>
>>> What platform are you on?
>>
>> Ubuntu GNU/Linux: both 6.10 x86_64 Python 2.4 as well as 7.04 i686
>> Python 2.5.
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