serious Python-2.7.2-12.x86_64 crash...

[Rob Healey]

Greetings:

Major crash!  Please fix before releasing Fedora 17....

Here is what I received on my terminal window regarding this crash...

[Frog at FartingSalmon gep-026]$ pysetup run sdist
running sdist
running check
invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/run.py", line 651, in main
    return dispatcher()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/run.py", line 639,
in __call__
    return func(self, self.args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/run.py", line 91, in wrapper
    return f(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/run.py", line 285, in _run
    dist.run_command(cmd, dispatcher.command_options[cmd])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/dist.py", line
709, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/sdist.py",
line 165, in run
    self.get_file_list()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/sdist.py",
line 189, in get_file_list
    self.add_defaults()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/sdist.py",
line 220, in add_defaults
    cmd_obj = self.get_finalized_command(cmd_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/cmd.py",
line 318, in get_finalized_command
    cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/cmd.py",
line 105, in ensure_finalized
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/command/build_ext.py",
line 157, in finalize_options
    py_include = sysconfig.get_path('include')
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.py",
line 441, in get_path
    return get_paths(scheme, vars, expand)[name]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.py",
line 431, in get_paths
    return _expand_vars(scheme, vars)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.py",
line 140, in _expand_vars
    _extend_dict(vars, get_config_vars())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.py",
line 472, in get_config_vars
    _init_posix(_CONFIG_VARS)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/distutils2/_backport/sysconfig.py",
line 333, in _init_posix
    raise IOError(msg)
IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open
/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Rob G. Healey