#5961: Document potential interference issues with ~/.pydistutils.cfg
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Reporter: mabshoff | Owner: tba
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.0
Component: documentation | Keywords:
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See https://groups.google.com/group/sage-
devel/browse_thread/thread/2cee11b068180497
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Dear Sage developers,
I tried to build Sage-3.4 on my intel macbook (Mac OS X 10.4.11). I
have Xcode 2.5 installed and gcc-4.0.1. I downloaded the sage-3.4.tar,
untarred it and ran make. I have macports installed so changed the PATH
to remove anything from /opt. I also renamed /opt to something else in
one attempt but both failed with the same error:
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[...]
Sleeping for three seconds before testing python
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/md5.py",
line 6, in <module>
from hashlib import md5
File
"/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line
133, in <module>
md5 = __get_builtin_constructor('md5')
File
"/Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/local/lib/python2.5/hashlib.py", line
60, in __get_builtin_constructor
import _md5
ImportError: No module named _md5
md5 module failed to import
[...]
sage: An error occurred while installing python-2.5.2.p9
Please email sage-devel http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel
explaining the problem and send the relevant part of
of /Users/prabhu/src/build/sage-3.4/install.log. Describe your
computer, operating system, etc.
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Searching the lists for this gave me this:
http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel/browse_thread/thread/e2fcb3...
which isn't very helpful.
After spending a little while figuring out what is wrong I realize that
I've done something a little non-standard that broke things. I have
a default ~/.pydistutils.cfg which reads like so:
[install]
install_lib = ~/Library/Python/$py_version_short/site-packages
install_scripts = ~/usr/bin
I completely forgot about this and my install logs indicated a large
number of files being installed in the `install_lib` directory. So
moving this .pydistutils.cfg out of the way helped resolve the problem
and the build went well.
I think this should be documented somewhere so others don't fall into
the same trap. Thanks.
cheers,
prabhu
}}}
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5961>
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