[egenix-users] Error installing mxbase on ubuntu 12.04

[M.-A. Lemburg]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:04 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>>> Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>>>> python 2.7.3 on ubuntu 12.04 beta2.
>>>
>>> The traceback looks like you don't have distutils installed or only
>>> part of it.
>>>
>>> Try to do an "import distutils" or "import distutils.ccompiler" from
>>> the Python prompt.
>>
>> I did and It worked, the problem is that it doesn't have customize_compiler
> 
> Looks like this patch broke distutils in 2.7.3:
> 
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6240ff5dfebe
> 
> See http://bugs.python.org/issue13994

You can work around it by editing mxSetup and changing the import
line to:

    from distutils.ccompiler import customize_compiler

to

    from distutils.sysconfig import customize_compiler

>>>> $ pip install egenix-mx-base
>>>> Downloading/unpacking egenix-mx-base
>>>>  Running setup.py egg_info for package egenix-mx-base
>>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>      File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
>>>>      File "/home/santagada/.virtualenvs/oerp/build/egenix-mx-base/setup.py",
>>>> line 9, in <module>
>>>>        import egenix_mx_base
>>>>      File "egenix_mx_base.py", line 11, in <module>
>>>>        from mxSetup import mx_Extension, mx_version
>>>>      File "mxSetup.py", line 318, in <module>
>>>>        from distutils.ccompiler import customize_compiler
>>>>    ImportError: cannot import name customize_compiler
>>>>    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>>>>    Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>
>>>>  File "<string>", line 14, in <module>
>>>>
>>>>  File "/home/santagada/.virtualenvs/oerp/build/egenix-mx-base/setup.py",
>>>> line 9, in <module>
>>>>
>>>>    import egenix_mx_base
>>>>
>>>>  File "egenix_mx_base.py", line 11, in <module>
>>>>
>>>>    from mxSetup import mx_Extension, mx_version
>>>>
>>>>  File "mxSetup.py", line 318, in <module>
>>>>
>>>>    from distutils.ccompiler import customize_compiler
>>>>
>>>> ImportError: cannot import name customize_compiler
>>>>
>>>
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>>> Marc-Andre Lemburg
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>>>
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>>
>>
>>
> 

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