durusmail: quixote-users: Install error on win98
Install error on win98
2002-04-29
2002-05-06
2002-05-06
Install error on win98
Patrick K. O'Brien
2002-04-27
I'm getting the following error when I try to install on Win98. I'll look
into it, but if anyone sees an obvious solution it would save me some time
and effort. I'm on Python 2.2.1.

C:\Code\Quixote-0.4.7>python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 20, in ?
    cmdclass = {'build_py': qx_build_py},
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\core.py", line 138, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 893, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 913, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\command\install.py", line 491, in run
    self.run_command('build')
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 330, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 913, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 107, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 330, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 912, in run_command
    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 112, in ensure_finalized
    self.finalize_options()
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\command\build_py.py", line 57, in
finalize_opt
ions
    self.package_dir[name] = convert_path(path)
  File "C:\PYTHON22\lib\distutils\util.py", line 87, in convert_path
    if pathname[0] == '/':
IndexError: string index out of range

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech



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