[Distutils] bugfix for GUI.exe launcher

[Alexander Michael]

On Dec 31, 2007 4:55 PM, Robin Dunn <robin at 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-to-launch--td14219909.html>