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

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2012-04-10 at 23:58 -0700, Rob Healey wrote:
[...snip...]
> [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()
[...snip...]
>   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)

Looks like distutils2 needs to be patched to take into account the
changes we make to Python downstream for multilib.

Please file a bug about this (e.g. against "python" for now)