installing pypy on 64bit centos 6.4

distutils.patch

--- /usr/lib64/pypy-1.9/lib-python/2.7/distutils/unixccompiler.py       2012-06-15 11:33:20.000000000 -0700
+++ /tmp/unixccompiler.py       2013-06-17 12:39:10.212783192 -0700
@@ -297,7 +297,9 @@
         # this time, there's no way to determine this information from
         # the configuration data stored in the Python installation, so
         # we use this hack.
-        compiler = os.path.basename(sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))
+        # XXX: http://bugs.python.org/issue14030
+        # compiler = os.path.basename(sysconfig.get_config_var("CC"))
+        compiler = os.path.basename(self.compiler[0])
         if sys.platform[:6] == "darwin":
             # MacOSX's linker doesn't understand the -R flag at all
             return "-L" + dir

instructions

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
yum install pypy pypy-devel pypy-libs


# create a pypy environment
# this may fail miserably on CentOS 6.4 x86_64 with the stack trace:
#
# $ virtualenv -p /usr/bin/pypy /tmp/pypyenv
# Running virtualenv with interpreter /usr/bin/pypy
# Traceback (most recent call last):
#   File "app_main.py", line 51, in run_toplevel
#   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 2577, in <module>
#     main()
#   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 979, in main
#     no_pip=options.no_pip)
#   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1081, in create_environment
#     site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear))
#   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1256, in install_python
#     fix_lib64(lib_dir)
#   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1643, in fix_lib64
#     "Unexpected python lib dir: %r" % lib_dir)
# AssertionError: Unexpected python lib dir: '/tmp/pypyenv'

# install a copy of virtualenv that's known to work with pypy.
virtualenv virtualenv_bootstrap
source virtualenv_bootstrap/bin/activate
pip install git+git://github.com/pypa/virtualenv.git

# create a pypy environment
virtualenv -p $(which pypy) --no-site-packages pypyenv

# switch to pypyenv
deactivate
source pypyenv/bin/activate

# work around issue http://bugs.python.org/issue14030
# wget distutils.patch from this gist
sudo patch -p0 < distutils.patch