[Zope] Building Zope

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:23:47PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 13:15 Uhr +0100 John Poltorak 
> <jp at warpix.org> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:07:30PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> --On Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004 13:03 Uhr +0100 John Poltorak
> >> <jp at warpix.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > "G:\USR\BIN\PYTHON.EXE" "G:/ux2bs/workdir/Zope-2.7.2-0/setup.py"
> >> > install \    --prefix="/usr/local/Zope"
> >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >>
> >> This looks somewhat weird. You are running a Windows binary PYTHON.exe
> >> on a  Unix-like
> >> filesystem? Please explain!
> >
> > Actually an OS/2 binary on a Unix-like directory structure...
> >
> > The command has been generated using the supplied configure shell script.
> >
> > It may look weird but works perfectly well - at least with v2.7.0.
> >
> 
> Sorry, no idea about OS/2 (I thought OS/2 died some years ago). 

Some things just keep working...  It is still available, in fact has just 
been relaunched by a third party.

> Your problem
> looks a bit like a Distutil problem.

I just tried v2.7.1 and get the same error there. Were there any subtle 
changes in the build process introduced between 2.7.0 and 2.7.1 ?


> -aj


-- 
John