New submission from Alexander Dutton <alexander.dut...@oucs.ox.ac.uk>:
If there are any broken symlinks in the same directory as a setup.py when e.g.
sdist is run, findall() will fall over when attempting to os.stat() the symlink:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 81, in run
_sdist.run(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 144, in run
self.get_file_list()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/command/sdist.py", line 238, in
get_file_list
self.filelist.findall()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/filelist.py", line 47, in findall
self.allfiles = findall(dir)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/distutils/filelist.py", line 297, in findall
stat = os.stat(fullname)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'debian/tmp/usr/share/somepath/somesymlink'
Solutions would include replacing the call to os.stat() with one to os.lstat()
(probably backwards-incompatible), or trying one and then the other.
This bug is present in Pythons 2.6.6 (Debian 6.0.2) and 2.7 (Fedora 14).
When attempting to reproduce in Python 3.1.2 (on Fedora) no error was
encountered. However, looking at distutils/filelist.py, the same unadulterated
call to os.stat() is present. I'll presume that for whatever reason distutils
in Py3.1.2 never has cause to stat my broken symlink.
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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 143399
nosy: Alexander.Dutton, eric.araujo, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils.filelist.findall() fails on broken symlink in Py2.x
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1
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