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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
That file is actually created by a package called setuptools, which is used by these packages. It sounds like your setuptools is broken.
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That would seem to be the case, however after going through setuptools and the other python dependencies of calibre; I cannot find any reason why compiling those from source insists on overwriting easy-install.pth. Even watching the compile process it eventually says "adding blah blah" to easy-install.pth.
Installing them from source is pretty straight forward;
Code:
python setup.py build && python setup.py install
I even tried running setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg as a script file, as described in the documentation with the same results. So either there is some undocumented magic incantation for building/installing from source, or I have found a bug.