[New-bugs-announce] [issue11599] Useless error message when distutils fails compiling

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

Really, can't distutils at least display the command-line that failed to execute?


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py", line 176, in _compile
    extra_postargs)
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 911, in spawn
    spawn(cmd, dry_run=self.dry_run)
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 34, in spawn
    _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 138, in _spawn_posix
    % (cmd[0], exit_status))
distutils.errors.DistutilsExecError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/test/test_embed.py", line 42, in test_subinterps
    exe = self.make_exe("embed1.c")
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/test/test_embed.py", line 29, in make_exe
    compiler.compile([srcpath], output_dir=build_dir)
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/ccompiler.py", line 576, in compile
    self._compile(obj, src, ext, cc_args, extra_postargs, pp_opts)
  File "/home/antoine/cpython/default/Lib/distutils/unixccompiler.py", line 178, in _compile
    raise CompileError(msg)
distutils.errors.CompileError: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 131352
nosy: eric.araujo, pitrou, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Useless error message when distutils fails compiling
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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