zope recursion during build / test / install

[nejucomo]

I left my machine while running "time { python setup.py build && python setup.py test && python setup.py install; }". I ran this inside of a "cd /media/target-disk; chroot ." on a debian system, even though /media/target-disk contains an ubuntu installation!

When I returned the command output ended with:

  File "/usr/local/src/allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0/zope.interface-3.5.2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 1370, in _normalizeargs
    _normalizeargs(v, output)
  File "/usr/local/src/allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0/zope.interface-3.5.2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 1370, in _normalizeargs
    _normalizeargs(v, output)
  File "/usr/local/src/allmydata-tahoe-1.5.0/zope.interface-3.5.2-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/zope/interface/declarations.py", line 1366, in _normalizeargs
    if InterfaceClass in cls.__mro__ or Implements in cls.__mro__:
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

Unfortunately I cannot scroll back to see the top of the stack trace or more relevant logs.

When I rerun the same command, unit tests seem to begin executing until they abort strangely with a different error which I will file as a separate ticket.