[Xen-devel] Xen compilation aborts on Mandrake Linux

["Philippe Berthault" <Philippe.Berthault@xxxxxxxx>]

Compilation of Xen sources (from xen-unstable tar), on a Mandrake 10.1 linux

system, aborts with the following message:

 

  running build_ext
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "setup.py", line 47, in ?
      ext_modules = [ xc, xu ]
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/core.py", line 149, in setup
      dist.run_commands()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 907, in run_commands
      self.run_command(cmd)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build.py", line 107, in run
      self.run_command(cmd_name)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
      self.distribution.run_command(command)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/dist.py", line 927, in run_command
      cmd_obj.run()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 244, in run
      customize_compiler(self.compiler)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 149, in customize_compiler
      (cc, cxx, opt, basecflags, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext) = \
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 472, in get_config_vars
      func()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 349, in _init_posix
      filename = get_makefile_filename()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 202, in get_makefile_filename
      lib_dir = get_python_lib(plat_specific=1, standard_lib=1)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.3/distutils/sysconfig.py", line 103, in get_python_lib
      sys.lib, "python" + get_python_version())
  AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'lib'

Anyone has a idea of how to resolve the problem ?