systematic issue with PYDISTUTILS_AUTOPLIST

[Nicola Vitale]

Hi,

> [2013/11/21 William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>]
> The conclusion is that there are issues to fix in setuptools like
> easy-install.pth.

Do you mean errors such as

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth: No such file
or directory?

(see for example
http://package19.nyi.freebsd.org/bulk/91amd64-default-pr_183726/2013-11-13_11h43m59s/logs/errors/py27-scriptaculous-1.8.1.1_2.log
)

If so, in my opinion the cause may be this change to bsd.python.mk:
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=322046

In fact, with the new setuptools, easy-install.pth is created the
first time you run easy_install; but if you use only packages to
install programs/dependencies, then this never happens, so the ed
command fails to edit the file
${PYEASYINSTALL_SITELIBDIR}/easy-install.pth.

HTH.
--
Nicola Vitale