bzr 1.14: Installing from source broken by default on Windows when compiling extensions

[Gary van der Merwe]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 6:41 PM, John Arbash Meinel
<john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
> 2) Find out that /usr/bin/gcc no longer exists as a real .exe and is now
> a symlink pointing to /etc/alternatives/gcc, etc, etc. Which breaks all
> of 'py setup.py build_ext' because there is now no .exe for it to find...
>
> 3) cry a bit
>
> 4) rm /usr/bin/gcc-3exe ; cp /usr/bin/gcc-3.exe /usr/bin/gcc.exe
>   # You have to delete it first, otherwise it seems to follow the
>   # symlink, and claims you can't copy a file onto itself


This is not a problem if you use the cygwin bash shell.

(Sorry for the duplicate mail John. Hit reply instead of reply to all.)