setup.py build issue: build_options.py not found

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Hi List,

After building wxPython from source a number of times on my Mac, I’m having a problem that baffles me; hopefully someone can shed light:

Here are the steps I’m following:

  1. Download a fresh wxPython tarball

  2. Building and installing wx, gizmos, and stc

I am having issues running setup.py. Running the following command with fresh wxPython download:

python2.4 setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug WX_CONFIG=$BUILD_SHARED_DIR/bin/wx-config

Building python modules in /Users/kolohe/vterrain/wxPython/wxPython-src-2.8.3.0/wxPython

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “setup.py”, line 50, in ?
copy_file(‘build_options.py’, ‘wx/build’, update=1, verbose=1)

File “/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/python2.4/distutils/file_util.py”, line 118, in copy_file
raise DistutilsFileError,
distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: can’t copy ‘build_options.py’: doesn’t exist or not a regular file

I have built wxPython on my mac ser

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Profuse apologies as my prior post was sent incomplete. This is the complete question.

After building wxPython from source successfully several times on my Mac, I’m
having a problem that baffles me; hopefully someone can shed light. Maybe there’s some detail I’ve missed?

Here are the steps I’m following:

  1. Download a fresh wxPython tarball

  2. Building and installing wx, gizmos, and stc from that tarball

  3. Running the following from inside the wxPython-src-2.8.3.0/wxPython directory:

    python2.4 setup.py build_ext --inplace --debug WX_CONFIG=$BUILD_SHARED_DIR/bin/wx-config

This yields:

Building python modules in /Users/kolohe/vterrain/wxPython/wxPython-src-2.8.3.0/wxPython

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “setup.py”, line 50, in ?
copy_file(‘build_options.py’, ‘wx/build’, update=1, verbose=1)

File “/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/python2.4/distutils/file_util.py”, line 118, in copy_file
raise DistutilsFileError,
distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: can’t copy ‘build_options.py’: doesn’t exist or not a regular file

Looking at the setup.py code:
…

line 37

for bo_name in [“build_options.py”, “build_options.pyc”]:
if os.path.exists(bo_name):
os.remove(bo_name)
…

this line, 50, fails

copy_file(‘build_options.py’, ‘wx/build’, update=1, verbose=1)

I don’t see any steps between these two that would explicitly indicated “build_options.py” would be recreated… is there something I’m missing out on here?

Thanks for your help in advance,

Nino

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Nino Walker wrote:

## Building python modules in /Users/kolohe/vterrain/wxPython/wxPython-src-2.8.3.0/wxPython
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 50, in ?
    copy_file('build_options.py', 'wx/build', update=1, verbose=1)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4//lib/python2.4/distutils/file_util.py", line 118, in copy_file
    raise DistutilsFileError, \
distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: can't copy 'build_options.py': doesn't exist or not a regular file

I have built wxPython on my mac ser

Make sure there isn't a build_options.py or .pyc somewhere on the PYTHONPATH. That can throw off the code in setup.py that is looking for the file.

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