Invalid Version Number (Distutils from Cygwin)

[newbie73]

OS: Vista
Python 2.5.2.2 (ActiveState Software Installation)
Running latest Cygwin release

The error generated is pasted below - please help.

- Luis

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I'm attempting to build a project (FANN libraries) using cygwin (to avoid
installing MSVC 2003) and am receiving this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "setup.py", line 46, in <module>
define_macros=[("SWIG_COMPILE",None)]
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 974, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\command\build.py", line 112, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\cmd.py", line 333, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 994, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "o:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 273, in
run
force=self.force)
File "o:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 1175, in
new_compiler
return klass (None, dry_run, force)
File "o:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 292, in
__init__

CygwinCCompiler.__init__ (self, verbose, dry_run, force)
File "o:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 84, in
__init__
get_versions()
File "o:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\cygwinccompiler.py", line 424, in
get_vers
ions
ld_version = StrictVersion(result.group(1))
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 40, in __init__
self.parse(vstring)
File "O:\bin\Python25\lib\distutils\version.py", line 107, in parse
raise ValueError, "invalid version number '%s'" % vstring
ValueError: invalid version number '2.18.50.20080523'