Modified version of a patch from Jeremy Kloth, to make .get_outputs()
produce a list of unique filenames:
"While attempting to build an RPM using distutils on Python 2.0,
rpm complained about duplicate files. The following patch fixed
that problem.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
index 806da01..40e0070 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install.py
@@ -530,7 +530,11 @@
outputs = []
for cmd_name in self.get_sub_commands():
cmd = self.get_finalized_command(cmd_name)
- outputs.extend(cmd.get_outputs())
+ # Add the contents of cmd.get_outputs(), ensuring
+ # that outputs doesn't contain duplicate entries
+ for filename in cmd.get_outputs():
+ if filename not in outputs:
+ outputs.append(filename)
return outputs