On Mar 4, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Michael Watkins wrote:
> This is a FreeBSD (perhaps *BSD) issue; I've never looked into
> distutils
> to see where it derives paths


I haven't either, but it seems like it would use the value of
sys.executable
in the python process that runs setup.py, and I would expect that to
always
work.  If distutils produces a path that does not exist, then maybe we
should try
to fix distutils.
..