distutils, cygwin, 'not a regular file'

[Paul Watson]

So, what is not a regular file about this? Is there any way to find out
which files are being considered irregular?

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 pwatson 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

$ cat setup.py

from distutils.core import setup

setup(
name='xlsexport',
version='0.3',

py_modules=['xlsexport']
)
20:47 pwatson [ pwatson:/cygdrive/c/Users/pwatson/bin/xlsexport] 12
$ python setup.py sdist
running sdist
warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: url
warning: sdist: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or
(maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied
reading manifest file 'MANIFEST'
creating xlsexport-0.3
making hard links in xlsexport-0.3...
' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping
tar -cf dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar xlsexport-0.3
gzip -f9 dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar
removing 'xlsexport-0.3' (and everything under it)

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping

Just a guess, is the file it’s complaining about named “'�

 

[Thomas Jollans]

So, what is not a regular file about this? Is there any way to find out
which files are being considered irregular?

Regular files are the kind of files used to store bytes. Other kinds of files
you might find in a file system include:

directories
symbolic links
pipes (FIFOs)
sockets (UNIX/LOCAL domain)
character devices
block devices

Also, for help on interpreting the message at hand, see Lawrence d'Oliveiro's
response.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.0-WOW64 pwatson 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin

$ cat setup.py

from distutils.core import setup

setup(
name='xlsexport',
version='0.3',

py_modules=['xlsexport']
)
20:47 pwatson [ pwatson:/cygdrive/c/Users/pwatson/bin/xlsexport] 12
$ python setup.py sdist
running sdist
warning: sdist: missing required meta-data: url
warning: sdist: missing meta-data: either (author and author_email) or
(maintainer and maintainer_email) must be supplied
reading manifest file 'MANIFEST'
creating xlsexport-0.3
making hard links in xlsexport-0.3...
' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping
' not a regular file -- skipping
tar -cf dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar xlsexport-0.3
gzip -f9 dist/xlsexport-0.3.tar
removing 'xlsexport-0.3' (and everything under it)