[egenix-users] Error installing mxbase on ubuntu 12.04

[M.-A. Lemburg]

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

>>> $ 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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>>>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
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> 
> 
> 

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>>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ...        http://www.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ...             http://zope.egenix.com/
>>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ...        http://python.egenix.com/
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