[Matplotlib-users] OT: bdist_rpm and Python 2.2

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

This is somewhat off topic, but:  I've been trying to build matplotlib 
(and numarray and scipy for that matter) with 'python setup.py 
bdist_rpm'.  This works fine on a Fedora Core 3 system.  It does not 
work on FC1 with its default Python 2.2 installation, nor does it work 
if I install Python 2.3 from the FC1 RPMs at python.org and do 
'python2.3 setup.py bdist_rpm' on the FC1 system.  The version of 
distutils on the FC3 system and the FC1 Python 2.3 install seems to be 
the same. Since the FC1 system is supposed to be a stable server, I'm 
loathe at the moment to risk updating it to FC3.

Any help?