On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:00:02 +0200, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Re: Compilation aborted for setuptools-0.6.12:

>walt <w41ter@gmail.com> [10-06-19 16:48]:
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>> Have you set eselect python to use python-3 instead of python-2?  If 
>> so,
>> try setting it back to python-2.
>
>No, python 2.6 ist set according to the output of 
>
>    eselect python list
>
>python 3.1 is installed but not selected.
>
>What else can produce this compilation error?

Have you run python-updater?

When new packages have Python components, they will build both 2.6 and
3.1 modules if possible.  This means that their dependencies also need
to have both 2.6 and 3.1 modules.  You achieve this by running
python-updater; this can take several hours.
-- 
Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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