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Author	michael.foord
Recipients	eric.araujo, michael.foord, tarek
Date	2010-12-23.17:56:22
SpamBayes Score	3.4005916e-07
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<1293126984.08.0.755809334689.issue10764@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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sysconfig assumes there will be a makefile if the platform is posix, which isn't always true. For example IronPython on Mac OS X with mono. This leads to a traceback on startup with IronPython 2.7: $ ipy27 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 548, in <module> File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 530, in main File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 264, in addusersitepackages File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 239, in getusersitepackages File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 229, in getuserbase File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 518, in get_config_var File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 421, in get_config_vars File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 275, in _init_posix IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /Volumes/Second Drive/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (Could not find a part of the path "/Volumes/Second Drive/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile".)IronPython 2.7 Beta 1 (2.7.0.10) on .NET 4.0.30319.1 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>

sysconfig assumes there will be a makefile if the platform is posix, which isn't always true. For example IronPython on Mac OS X with mono.

This leads to a traceback on startup with IronPython 2.7:

$ ipy27
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 548, in <module>
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 530, in main
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 264, in addusersitepackages
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 239, in getusersitepackages
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/site.py", line 229, in getuserbase
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 518, in get_config_var
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 421, in get_config_vars
  File "/Second/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/Lib/sysconfig.py", line 275, in _init_posix
IOError: invalid Python installation: unable to open /Volumes/Second Drive/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile (Could not find a part of the path "/Volumes/Second Drive/michael/Downloads/IronPython-2.7/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile".)IronPython 2.7 Beta 1 (2.7.0.10) on .NET 4.0.30319.1
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-12-23 17:56:24	michael.foord	set	recipients: + michael.foord, tarek, eric.araujo
2010-12-23 17:56:24	michael.foord	set	messageid: <1293126984.08.0.755809334689.issue10764@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010-12-23 17:56:22	michael.foord	link	issue10764 messages
2010-12-23 17:56:22	michael.foord	create