Check if the claimed build directory doesn't exist, and warn that we don't
have any Python modules to install (rather than bomb when we try to copy
a non-existent directory).
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py b/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
index 63c7a6b..5b3d77a 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
@@ -53,7 +53,12 @@
# Install everything: simply dump the entire contents of the build
# directory to the installation directory (that's the beauty of
# having a build directory!)
- outfiles = self.copy_tree (self.build_dir, self.install_dir)
+ if os.path.isdir(self.build_dir):
+ outfiles = self.copy_tree (self.build_dir, self.install_dir)
+ else:
+ self.warn("'%s' does not exist -- no Python modules to install" %
+ self.build_dir)
+ return
# (Optionally) compile .py to .pyc
# XXX hey! we can't control whether we optimize or not; that's up