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pip isolated build breaks when a pth file imports setuptools and setup_requires is defined

See original GitHub issue

The following script reproduces the problem:

rm -rf venv

python3.8 -m venv venv

venv/bin/pip install pip setuptools wheel -U
venv/bin/pip list

echo 'import setuptools' 1>venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/magic.pth

venv/bin/pip install --no-deps https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/60/5f/f17dd17ba9ee47fb0629789bbd320e833622634444877b2e7d90922aa0e5/virtualenv-20.0.5.tar.gz

Looking in indexes: http://localhost:3141/bernat/bb
Collecting pip
  Downloading http://localhost:3141/bernat/bb/%2Bf/4ae/14a42d8adba32/pip-20.0.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.4MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 1.4MB 48.8MB/s
Collecting setuptools
  Downloading http://localhost:3141/bernat/bb/%2Bf/316/484eebff54cc1/setuptools-45.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (584kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 593kB 51.1MB/s
Collecting wheel
  Downloading http://localhost:3141/bernat/bb/%2Bf/df2/77cb51e61359a/wheel-0.34.2-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
  Found existing installation: pip 19.2.3
    Uninstalling pip-19.2.3:
      Successfully uninstalled pip-19.2.3
  Found existing installation: setuptools 41.2.0
    Uninstalling setuptools-41.2.0:
      Successfully uninstalled setuptools-41.2.0
Successfully installed pip-20.0.2 setuptools-45.2.0 wheel-0.34.2
Package    Version
---------- -------
pip        20.0.2
setuptools 45.2.0
wheel      0.34.2
Looking in indexes: http://localhost:3141/bernat/bb
Collecting https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/60/5f/f17dd17ba9ee47fb0629789bbd320e833622634444877b2e7d90922aa0e5/virtualenv-20.0.5.tar.gz
  Using cached virtualenv-20.0.5.tar.gz (8.0 MB)
  Installing build dependencies ... -
done
  Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
    Preparing wheel metadata ... error
    ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
     command: /Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/bin/python3.8 /Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /var/folders/kt/btg285ds5kx4l1k398lb7df80000gr/T/tmpphcu52qx
         cwd: /private/var/folders/kt/btg285ds5kx4l1k398lb7df80000gr/T/pip-req-build-ykiwdkxl
    Complete output (40 lines):
    /Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/bin/python3.8: No module named pip
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 128, in fetch_build_egg
        subprocess.check_call(cmd)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/.pyenv/versions/3.8.1/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 364, in check_call
        raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
    subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/bin/python3.8', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/var/folders/kt/btg285ds5kx4l1k398lb7df80000gr/T/tmppps3v_ps', '--quiet', 'setuptools_scm>=2']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 257, in <module>
        main()
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 240, in main
        json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py", line 110, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
        return hook(metadata_directory, config_settings)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 158, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
        self.run_setup()
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 143, in run_setup
        exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'), locals())
      File "setup.py", line 6, in <module>
        setup(
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 143, in setup
        _install_setup_requires(attrs)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/__init__.py", line 138, in _install_setup_requires
        dist.fetch_build_eggs(dist.setup_requires)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 718, in fetch_build_eggs
        resolved_dists = pkg_resources.working_set.resolve(
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 781, in resolve
        dist = best[req.key] = env.best_match(
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1066, in best_match
        return self.obtain(req, installer)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1078, in obtain
        return installer(requirement)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py", line 777, in fetch_build_egg
        return fetch_build_egg(self, req)
      File "/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/setuptools/installer.py", line 130, in fetch_build_egg
        raise DistutilsError(str(e))
    distutils.errors.DistutilsError: Command '['/Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/bin/python3.8', '-m', 'pip', '--disable-pip-version-check', 'wheel', '--no-deps', '-w', '/var/folders/kt/btg285ds5kx4l1k398lb7df80000gr/T/tmppps3v_ps', '--quiet', 'setuptools_scm>=2']' returned non-zero exit status 1.
    ----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: /Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/bin/python3.8 /Users/bgabor8/git/github/pip-bug/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pep517/_in_process.py prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel /var/folders/kt/btg285ds5kx4l1k398lb7df80000gr/T/tmpphcu52qx Check the logs for full command output.

Ran into this while trying to fix https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/pull/1657

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:14 (6 by maintainers)

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gaborbernatcommented, Feb 26, 2020

For now side-step the issue in virtualenv, by reverting our fix - https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changelog.html#v20-0-7-2020-02-26

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D0hancommented, Feb 26, 2020

This is a big problem for us.

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