Re: [gentoo-python] [PATCH] distutils-r1: Move egg-base to ${BUILD_DIR}/egg-info and prepend to PYTHONPATH

[Mike Gilbert]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:36 PM, W. Trevor King <wking@×××××××.us> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 08:57:58PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> This resolves a testing failure in dev-python/cryptography-1.6.1.
>>
>> cryptography.hazmat.backends._available_backends() scans the
>> available setuptools entry_points, and so depends on having a valid
>> egg-info/entry_points.txt file available.
>
> This sounds like the issue fixed by my Setuptools patch [1,2].  If I
> can reproduce the test failure and confirm that my Setuptools patch
> fixes it, can we use my patch when building Setuptools until it lands
> upstream?
>

That looks related, but I'm not sure it would resolve the problem with
dev-python/cryptography.

Would you mind testing that to confirm? You would want to install a
copy of setuptools with your patch applied, remove RESTRICT=test in
cryptography-1.6.1, and then run the tests via the ebuild.