[Distutils] SetupTools: Bug in launcher.c causing gui_scripts not to launch?

[Alexander Michael]

Has anyone had a change to look at this?

Thanks!
Alex

On Dec 7, 2007 3:15 PM, Alexander Michael <lxander.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> When trying to run a gui_script on WinXP I get the error:
>
> Could not exec #!c:\Python24\pythonw.exe".
>
> It looks like the shebang hasn't been stripped. In
>
> http://svn.python.org/projects/sandbox/trunk/setuptools/launcher.c
>
> (currently at r59407) should
>
>     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! */
>     }
>
> read something like:
>
>     if (is_gui) {
>         /* Use exec, we don't need to wait for the GUI to finish */
>         execv(ptr, (const char * const *)(newargs));
>         return fail("Could not exec %s", ptr);   /* shouldn't get here! */
>     }
>
> as in
>
>     /* We *do* need to wait for a CLI to finish, so use spawn */
>     return spawnv(P_WAIT, ptr, (const char * const *)(newargs));
>
> so that the "#!" is stripped from the executable?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex