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

[Ned Deily]

In article <20090924131338.GA21078 at panix.com>,
 Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, Ned Deily wrote:
> > In article <20090923163646.GA26464 at panix.com>,
> >  Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, Christopher Barker wrote:
> >> > Aahz wrote:
> >> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009, mathew oakes wrote:
> >> >>>> DistutilsPlatformError: invalid Python installation: unable to
> >> >>>> open 
> >> >>>> /Full/Path/To/App.app/Contents/Resources/include/python2.6/pyconfig.h 
> >> >>>> (No such file or directory)
> >> >>> but python in in the bundle at .../Resources/lib/ and it doesn't have 
> >> >>> a
> >> >>> pyconfig header
> >> >> Ayup, you need to copy it from python2.5 -- pretty annoying.
> >> > Indeed. Does anyone know what pyconfig.h is used for? Is it a setuptools  
> >> > thing? py2app was written before setuptools, and I've found most of what 
> >> > I've had to do by hand was due to egg issues.
> >> It's a setuptools thing.
> > I believe pyconfig.h is created by the compiler build ./configure script 
> > to capture the relevant platform-dependent build configuration for that 
> > python instance and is used by distutils build_ext so that package C 
> > extensions can be correctly built.
> It's not included in the .dmg for Python 2.6.

Now I'm really confused :=)  I've just installed from the final 
python.org 2.6, 2.6.1, and 2.6.2 install.dmgs and, for me, each one 
installed what appears to be an appropriate file.  For example:

-rw-rw-r--  1 root  admin  30696 Apr 16 00:29 
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/include/python2.6/pycon
fig.h

Again, I'm no py2app expert but it looks like this might have been a 
problem that Ronald fixed in py2app svn r65 (aka 0.4.0) back in 2008-01.  
>From various past postings, I gather py2app hasn't been formally 
released in a long time and that the recommendation is to work from a 
recent svn checkout (currently r80 and working towards 0.4.2).

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org