the package won't compile Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. nice -n 19 emerge -avD dev-python/python-dateutil 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> Emerging (6 of 17) dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1 * python-dateutil-1.4.1.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking python-dateutil-1.4.1.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1/work/python-dateutil-1.4.1 ... * Applying python-dateutil-1.4.1-locale.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1/work/python-dateutil-1.4.1 ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1/work/python-dateutil-1.4.1 ... Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 7, in <module> from setuptools import setup ImportError: No module named setuptools * * ERROR: dev-python/python-dateutil-1.4.1-r1 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile * environment, line 2512: Called distutils_src_compile * environment, line 711: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * ${python} setup.py build "$@" || die "compilation failed" * The die message: * compilation failed Expected Results: successful compilation
emerge --info please
I cannot reproduce it here. Add output of emerge -vp setuptools.
emerge -vp setuptools These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-python/setuptools-0.6_rc9 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
# emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc33 (!../usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r1, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.73GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 25 May 2009 08:30:03 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p39 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9, 2.5.4-r2, 2.6.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://192.168.1.1/gentoo-portage/distfiles rsync://192.168.1.1/gentoo-portage/ rsync://ftp6.linux.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo" LANG="cs_CZ.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="cs us" PKGDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/mnt/nfs_portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo faad fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jack java jpeg kde ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session slang spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="cs us" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 i915" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
could it be that you upgraded python resonantly and didn't run python-updater. please do so now. If it doesn't reinstall setuptools, do it manually and try again.
emerge -avD setuptools solved the problem. Thanks for help.