From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:23:53 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Fix bug 3375 - _multiprocessing.so build problems on OS X.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0b2~12
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c3fee694644cdf24bfb974dcd924fbdf524350ee;p=python

Fix bug 3375 - _multiprocessing.so build problems on OS X.
The solution is to clear sys.path_importer_cache.
---

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 90fe68f447..f0fed72b8c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -263,6 +263,12 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         ext_filename = os.path.join(
             self.build_lib,
             self.get_ext_filename(self.get_ext_fullname(ext.name)))
+
+        # If the build directory didn't exist when setup.py was
+        # started, sys.path_importer_cache has a negative result
+        # cached.  Clear that cache before trying to import.
+        sys.path_importer_cache.clear()
+
         try:
             imp.load_dynamic(ext.name, ext_filename)
         except ImportError as why: