[Zope-dev] building Zope from CVS on Windows

[Mike Brown]

Hello,

I went to http://cvs.zope.org/Zope/ and downloaded a tarball via the link at
bottom of page, and proceeded to attempt a build (python setup.py install)
on a Windows XP Home system having Python 2.2.2 and VC98. When it got to the
build_ext stage, it failed with the following traceback. self.build_temp is
None at that point. I tried setting --build-base, but it didn't help.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Temp\Zope\setup.py", line 1033, in ?
    distclass=ZopeDistribution,
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\core.py", line 138, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 893, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 913, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Temp\Zope\setup.py", line 148, in run
    install.run(self)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 491, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 330, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 913, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 107, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 330, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 912, in run_command
    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 112, in ensure_finalized
    self.finalize_options()
  File "C:\Python22\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 168, in
finalize_options
    self.build_temp = os.path.join(self.build_temp, "Release")
  File "C:\Python22\lib\ntpath.py", line 72, in join
    assert len(path) > 0
TypeError: len() of unsized object

--
Mike