virtualenv creation failure under pypy-1.5a0

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/tox/issue/9
• Originally reported by: @mcdonc
• Originally created at: 2011-07-15T09:36:39.169

For the following tox.ini configuration:

#!text

[tox]
envlist = 
    py25,py26,py27,jython,pypy

[testenv]
commands = 
    python setup.py test -q
deps =
    Sphinx
    WebTest
    repoze.sphinx.autointerface
    virtualenv

[testenv:jython]
commands = 
   jython setup.py test -q

Running "tox -e pypy" (which finds pypy 1.5a0 on my PATH), produces this:

#!text

[chrism@thinko pyramid]$ tox -e pypy
_________________________________ [tox sdist] __________________________________
[TOX] ***creating sdist package
[TOX] /home/chrism/projects/pyramid$ /home/chrism/opt/Python-2.6.6/bin/python setup.py sdist --formats=zip --dist-dir .tox/dist >.tox/log/0.log
[TOX] ***copying new sdistfile to '/home/chrism/.tox/distshare/pyramid-1.1b2.zip'
______________________________ [tox testenv:pypy] ______________________________
[TOX] ***creating virtualenv pypy
[TOX] /home/chrism/projects/pyramid/.tox$ /home/chrism/projects/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c ../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py --distribute --no-site-packages pypy >pypy/log/0.log
[TOX] ERROR: invocation failed, logfile: /home/chrism/projects/pyramid/.tox/pypy/log/0.log
[TOX] ERROR: /home/chrism/projects/pyramid/.tox$ /home/chrism/projects/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c ../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py --distribute --no-site-packages pypy >pypy/log/0.log
New pypy executable in pypy/bin/pypy-c
Also creating executable in pypy/bin/pypy
Installing distribute........
  Complete output from command /home/chrism/project....tox/pypy/bin/pypy-c -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstra... main(sys.argv[1:])
" --always-copy -U distribute:
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 53, in run_toplevel
  File "app_main.py", line 506, in run_it
  File "<string>", line 20, in <module>
ImportError: No module named tempfile
----------------------------------------
...Installing distribute...done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 53, in run_toplevel
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 1922, in <module>
    main()
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 796, in main
    never_download=options.never_download)
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 893, in create_environment
    search_dirs=search_dirs, never_download=never_download)
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 594, in install_distribute
    search_dirs=search_dirs, never_download=never_download)
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 563, in _install_req
    cwd=cwd)
  File "../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py", line 864, in call_subprocess
    % (cmd_desc, proc.returncode))
OSError: Command /home/chrism/project....tox/pypy/bin/pypy-c -c "#!python
\"\"\"Bootstra... main(sys.argv[1:])
" --always-copy -U distribute failed with error code 1

[TOX] ERROR: InvocationError: /home/chrism/projects/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c ../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py --distribute --no-site-packages pypy (see /home/chrism/projects/pyramid/.tox/pypy/log/0.log)
________________________________ [tox summary] _________________________________
[TOX] ERROR: pypy: InvocationError: /home/chrism/projects/pypy/pypy/translator/goal/pypy-c ../../../opt/Python-2.6.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/tox-1.1-py2.6.egg/tox/virtualenv.py --distribute --no-site-packages pypy (see /home/chrism/projects/pyramid/.tox/pypy/log/0.log)

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Original comment by @mcdonc

Ignore this. Using the PyPy 1.5 tarball fixes this.