taking the global reqs that we can

Change-Id: Icfdeeab14e90728aa8167ad6587d51e9b10cb846

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 70c2b3f32..736375744 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@
 # THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY THE GLOBAL REQUIREMENTS REPO - DO NOT EDIT
 import setuptools
 
+# In python < 2.7.4, a lazy loading of package `pbr` will break
+# setuptools if some other modules registered functions in `atexit`.
+# solution from: http://bugs.python.org/issue15881#msg170215
+try:
+    import multiprocessing  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
 setuptools.setup(
     setup_requires=['pbr'],
     pbr=True)