Description of problem:

No writable cache directory for pypy (/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pypy -v
Python 2.7.3 (352c78d2e80f4a812ae1d8cdbe8c01a7f2e6fbc0, Aug 19 2013, 10:43:46)
[PyPy 2.1.0 with GCC 4.8.1 20130603 (Red Hat 4.8.1-1)] on linux2
Version     : 2.1.0
Release     : 1.fc19

python-virtualenv
Version     : 1.10.1
Release     : 1.fc19
How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. virtualenv -p /usr/bin/pypy /tmp/pypyenv
2. cd /tmp/pypyenv && source bin/activate
3. pip install ipython
4. ipython

Actual results:

from running ipython:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "app_main.py", line 72, in run_toplevel
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/bin/ipython", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('ipython==1.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'ipython')()
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 378, in load_entry_point
    return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name)
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2566, in load_entry_point
    return ep.load()
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 2260, in load
    entry = __import__(self.module_name, globals(),globals(), ['__name__'])
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/IPython/__init__.py", line 47, in <module>
    from .terminal.embed import embed
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/IPython/terminal/embed.py", line 39, in <module>
    from IPython.terminal.interactiveshell import TerminalInteractiveShell
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.py", line 32, in <module>
    from IPython.core.interactiveshell import InteractiveShell, InteractiveShellABC
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 52, in <module>
    from IPython.core.history import HistoryManager
  File "/tmp/pypyenv/site-packages/IPython/core/history.py", line 21, in <module>
    import sqlite3
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib-python/2.7/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 24, in <module>
    from dbapi2 import *
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib-python/2.7/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module>
    from _sqlite3 import *
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/_sqlite3.py", line 273, in <module>
    """, libraries=['sqlite3']
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/cffi/api.py", line 311, in verify
    lib = self.verifier.load_library()
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/cffi/verifier.py", line 68, in load_library
    self.compile_module()
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/cffi/verifier.py", line 55, in compile_module
    self._write_source()
  File "/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/cffi/verifier.py", line 117, in _write_source
    file = open(self.sourcefilename, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__/_cffi__g24366574x62c16045.c'

Expected results:

ipython prompt like as follows:
(pypyenv)dan@spaceman pypyenv $ ipython
Python 2.7.3 (352c78d2e80f4a812ae1d8cdbe8c01a7f2e6fbc0, Aug 19 2013, 10:43:46)
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

IPython 1.1.0 -- An enhanced Interactive Python.
?         -> Introduction and overview of IPython's features.
%quickref -> Quick reference.
help      -> Python's own help system.
object?   -> Details about 'object', use 'object??' for extra details.
VIRTUAL_ENV -> /tmp/pypyenv/lib/python2.7/site-packages

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Additional info:

$ ls -la /usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__
ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__: No such file or directory

After creating the directory with write permssions a normal user can run ipython under pypy

sudo mkdir /usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__ && sudo chmod a+wX /usr/lib64/pypy-2.1.0/lib_pypy/__pycache__