On Dec 3, 2007 4:12 PM, Esteve Fernàndez <<a href="mailto:esteve.fernandez@gmail.com">esteve.fernandez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> "Something weird" may indeed be up... but I don't know where to look.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ok, I found it.<br><br>On the advice of others, I put a file in my /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/distutils called
distutils.cfg. This file contained the following:<br>-------------------------------<br>[install]<br>install_lib = /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages<br>install_scripts = /usr/local/bin<br><br>[easy_install]<br>site_dirs = /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages
<br>zip_ok = 0<br>-------------------------------<br>
<br>I use some python software that has lots of eggs and dependencies, and was advised that it's best to keep that stuff in /usr/local/lib so that it doesn't conflict with Debian-managed /usr/lib. I think that this process is detailed on the setuptools website.
<br><br>If I deactivate this file, the package python-zodb_3.6.0-6_amd64.deb does indeed compile cleanly with the patch supplied by Esteve.<br><br>Thanks to all; I'm cooking again.<br><br>I'm cc'ing James Troup, who is somehow involved in the packaging of ZODB for Ubuntu.
<br><br>Thanks Esteve (and all)!<br><br>