[Distutils] Equivalent of config.h?

[David Cournapeau]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Denis Jasselette <dionysos_13 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> What OS are you using and which set of commands did you exactly use ?
>
> I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (python 2.6). And here is what I did:
>
>        $ ll
>        -rwxr-xr-x 1 denis denis 396 2010-06-16 14:39 setup.py
>        -rwxr-xr-x 1 denis denis 10K 2010-06-16 14:13 teqhtml
>        -rw-r--r-- 1 denis denis 203 2010-06-16 14:11 teqhtml_config.py
>        $ ./setup.py build
>        [...]
>        $ sudo ./setup.py install
>        [...]
>        $ ll /usr/local/bin/
>        -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10K 2010-06-16 17:06 teqhtml
>        $ ll /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/
>        -rw------- 1 root staff 281 2010-06-16 17:06
>        teqhtml-0.5.egg-info
>        -rw------- 1 root staff 203 2010-06-16 14:11 teqhtml_config.py
>        -rw------- 1 root staff 562 2010-06-16 17:06 teqhtml_config.pyc
>
> Actually, install doesn't change permissions, they are set while
> building. It looks like the umask is taken into account for py_modules
> but permissions are explicitly changed for scripts. If I set my umask to
> 0000 for instance, I don't have that problem.

What is your umask (when the .py are non world-readable) ? I believe
sudo has a different way of handling umask (compared to using straight
root account). You could try installing as root instead of using sudo,
and/or checking your sudoers for umask settings,

David