[issue7071] distutils and IronPython compatibility

[Michael Foord]

Michael Foord <michael at voidspace.org.uk> added the comment:

Hmmm... ok, so I was running on Vista where a normal user can't create
files in the "Program Files" directory anyway. If I run with elevated
permissions then I get the same error as reported on the IronPython
issue on codeplex (which is probably what you will see if you try this
on Windows XP):

C:\compile\test\foo-1.0>"C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\ipy.exe"
setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
copying build\lib\foo.py -> C:\Program Files\IronPython
2.6\Lib\site-packages
byte-compiling C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\site-packages\foo.py
to foo.p
yc
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 2, in setup.py
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\core.py", line
152, in set
up
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line
975, in run
_commands
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line
995, in run
_command
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython
2.6\Lib\distutils\command\install.py", line
589, in run
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333,
in run_
command
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\dist.py", line
995, in run
_command
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython
2.6\Lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", l
ine 100, in run
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython
2.6\Lib\distutils\command\install_lib.py", l
ine 134, in byte_compile
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\distutils\util.py", line
535, in byt
e_compile
  File "C:\Program Files\IronPython 2.6\Lib\py_compile.py", line 138, in
compile

ValueError: unmarshallable object
C:\compile\test\foo-1.0>

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