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The cygwinccompiler.py module for distutils on Pythons 2.5 and 2.4 fails
with an exception for the latest MinGW tools.
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "setup.py", line 224, in <module>
 setup(**PACKAGEDATA)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
 dist.run_commands()
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
 self.run_command(cmd)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
 cmd_obj.run()
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
 self.run_command(cmd_name)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
 self.distribution.run_command(command)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
 cmd_obj.run()
 File "setup.py", line 186, in run
 build_ext.run(self)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 264,
in run
 force=self.force)
 File "C:\prg\pygame\trunk_\mingw32distutils.py", line 31, in new_compiler
 return Mingw32DefaultCCompiler (None, dry_run, force)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 292, in
__init__
 CygwinCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 84, in
__init__
 get_versions()
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 424, in
get_vers
ions
 ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
 self.parse(vstring)
 File "C:\PRG\PYTHON25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
 raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.18.50.20080109'
For instance "ld -v" now returns "GNU ld (GNU Binutils)
2.18.50.20080109", not "GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824". The extra
period between the version number and date causes class StrictVersion to
raise a ValueError. A fix is to alter the regular expressions in
cygwinccompiler.get_versions().
This enclosed patch to cygwinccompiler.py has been tested with the
current and previous linker as well as gcc 4.2.1 and gcc 3.4.5.