[issue7661] compiling ctypes fails with non-ascii path

[Antoine Pitrou]

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

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./setup.py", line 1933, in <module>
    main()
  File "./setup.py", line 1928, in main
    'Lib/smtpd.py']
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/command/build.py", line 126, in run
    self.run_command(cmd_name)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
    self.distribution.run_command(command)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 396, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "./setup.py", line 192, in build_extensions
    build_ext.build_extensions(self)
  File "/home/buildbot/cpython-ucs4-nonascii-€/trunk.pitrou-ubuntu-wide/build/Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 506, in build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "./setup.py", line 226, in build_extension
    if not self.configure_ctypes(ext):
  File "./setup.py", line 1735, in configure_ctypes
    execfile(ffi_configfile, globals(), fficonfig)
  File "build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug/libffi/fficonfig.py", line 31
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7-pydebug/libffi/fficonfig.py on line 31, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
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See e.g. http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/builders/AMD64%20Ubuntu%20wide%20trunk/builds/238/steps/compile/logs/stdio

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assignee: theller
messages: 97444
nosy: pitrou, theller
priority: high
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: compiling ctypes fails with non-ascii path
type: compile error
versions: Python 2.6, Python 2.7

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