Fails to emerge. While it is in configuring stage it pukes on not finint setuptool. emerge --oneshot setuptools cures the issue Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge =dev-python/argparse-1.2.1 (without setuptools installed) Actual Results: ERROR: compile ERROR: dev-python/argparse-1.2.1 failed (compile phase): Building failed with CPython 2.6 in distutils_building() function Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 56: Called src_compile environment, line 7109: Called distutils_src_compile environment, line 4590: Called python_execute_function 'distutils_building' environment, line 5685: Called die The specific snippet of code: die "${failure_message}"; If you need support, post the output of 'emerge --info =dev-python/argparse-1.2.1', the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv =dev-python/argparse-1.2.1'. The complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/argparse-1.2.1/temp/build.log'. The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/argparse-1.2.1/temp/environment'. S: '/var/tmp/portage/dev-python/argparse-1.2.1/work/argparse-1.2.1' Expected Results: Completion of install
dev-python/argparse-1.2.1 already depends on dev-python/setuptools. You forgot to run python-updater.
