Hello! I am the maintainer of a small C extension, and after uploading it to pypi, out of curiosity, I tried installing it using easy_install.
The error that easy_install returns is however quite cryptic, and I have no idea of what is happening: $ easy_install -v -n --install-dir /Users/junk/py-lib pyfsevents Checking existing site.py in /Users/junk/py-lib Searching for pyfsevents Reading http://pypi.python.org/simple/pyfsevents/ Reading http://bitbucket.org/nicdumz/fsevents/ Found link: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyfsevents/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz#md5=edadbf0670ff96077fc05196817084e3 Best match: pyfsevents 0.1 Downloading http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/p/pyfsevents/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz#md5=edadbf0670ff96077fc05196817084e3 Validating md5 checksum for /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz Processing pyfsevents-0.1.tar.gz Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1// to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/ Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/BUGS to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/BUGS Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples// to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/ Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/proofofconcept.py to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/proofofconcept.py Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/testwatcher.py to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/testwatcher.py Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.py to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.py Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.pyc to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/examples/watcher.pyc Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/INSTALL to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/INSTALL Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/LICENSE to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/LICENSE Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/PKG-INFO to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/PKG-INFO Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/pyfsevents.c to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/pyfsevents.c Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/README to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/README Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/readme.rst to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/readme.rst Unpacking pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py to /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py Running pyfsevents-0.1/setup.py -n bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-NGokgY/pyfsevents-0.1/egg-dist-tmp-3dV2pZ running bdist_egg running egg_info creating pyfsevents.egg-info writing pyfsevents.egg-info/PKG-INFO writing top-level names to pyfsevents.egg-info/top_level.txt writing dependency_links to pyfsevents.egg-info/dependency_links.txt writing manifest file 'pyfsevents.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' writing manifest file 'pyfsevents.egg-info/SOURCES.txt' installing library code to build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg running install_lib running build_ext building 'pyfsevents' extension creating build creating build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5 gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-long-double -no-cpp-precomp -mno-fused-madd -fno-common -dynamic -DNDEBUG -g -Os -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -DMACOSX -I/usr/include/ffi -DENABLE_DTRACE -arch i386 -arch ppc -pipe -I/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/include/python2.5 -c pyfsevents.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.o creating build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5 gcc -Wl,-F. -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -arch i386 -arch ppc build/temp.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.o -o build/lib.macosx-10.5-i386-2.5/pyfsevents.so -framework CoreFoundation -framework CoreServices creating build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386 creating build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg creating build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/EGG-INFO zip_safe flag not set; analyzing archive contents... error: Setup script exited with error: build/bdist.macosx-10.5-i386/egg/EGG-INFO/zip-safe: No such file or directory Do we have a bug? Or simply a badly worded message? Note that I did not expect easy_install to work out of the box without configuration on my end, I am just surprised by the opaque error. Troubleshooting the issue seems quite difficult. Even with --build-directory , that build/bdist* repertory is not kept after the error. Maybe -k should be passed to setup.py when -b is passed to easy_install? Thanks, -- Nicolas Dumazet — NicDumZ _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
