On Dec 31, 2007 4:55 PM, Robin Dunn <robin@alldunn.com> wrote:

I see in the archives that this has been reported before, and I can verify that the attached patch does fix the problem for me. Basically what is happening is that the launcher is trying to execute python with the "#!" still in the name. I verified this by rebuilding gui.exe without -mwindows arg so it would still be a console app so I would see the failure message. It printed this:

"Could not exec #!c:\TOOLS\python25\pythonw.exe"

-- Robin Dunn Software Craftsman http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

Index: launcher.c =================================================================== --- launcher.c (revision 59634) +++ launcher.c (working copy) @@ -231,8 +231,8 @@

if (is_gui) { /* Use exec, we don't need to wait for the GUI to finish */ - execv(python, (const char * const *)(newargs)); - return fail("Could not exec %s", python); /* shouldn't get here! */ + execv(ptr, (const char * const *)(newargs)); + return fail("Could not exec %s", ptr); /* shouldn't get here! */ }

/* We *do* need to wait for a CLI to finish, so use spawn */

Robin, I raised this issue in the beginning of December [1]_ but haven't received a response yet (nor have I seen it corrected in the SVN). I would like to see this corrected, but I was under the impression that bug reports for setuptools should be sent to the distutils-sig mailling list. Do you know how we should next proceed to get this fixed? Thanks, Alex .. [1] <http://www.nabble.com/SetupTools:-Bug-in-launcher.c-causing-gui_scripts-not-...>