[Python-Dev] Can't build Zope on Windows w/ 2.4.1c1

[Tim Peters]

[Anthony Baxter]
> It works on Linux, with Zope 2.7.4.

Thanks!

> Just as a note to others (I've mentioned this to Tim already) if you set an
> environment variable DISTUTILS_DEBUG before running a setup.py, you get
> very verbose information about what's going on, and, more importantly, full
> tracebacks rather than terse error messages.
> 
> error: No such file or directory
> 
> looks like a distutils error message.

This helped a lot, although I'm even more confused now:

building 'ZODB.cPickleCache' extension
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\bin\cl.exe
    /c /nologo /Ox /MD /W3 /GX /DNDEBUG
    -IC:\Code\Zope-2_7-branch\lib\Components\ExtensionClass\src
    -IC:\python24\include
    -IC:\python24\PC /TcZODB/cPickleCache.c
     /Fobuild\temp.win32-2.4\Release\ZODB/cPickleCache.obj
    cPickleCache.c
error: No such file or directory
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Code\Zope-2_7-branch\setup.py", line 1094, in ?
    distclass=ZopeDistribution,
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\core.py", line 149, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 946, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\dist.py", line 966, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 279, in run
    self.build_extensions()
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 405, in
build_extensions
    self.build_extension(ext)
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\command\build_ext.py", line 502, in
build_extension
    target_lang=language)
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\ccompiler.py", line 847, in link_shared_object
    extra_preargs, extra_postargs, build_temp, target_lang)
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 422, in link
    if not self.initialized: self.initialize()
  File "C:\python24\lib\distutils\msvccompiler.py", line 239, in initialize
    os.environ['path'] = string.join(self.__paths, ';')
  File "C:\python24\lib\os.py", line 419, in __setitem__
    putenv(key, item)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

LOL -- or something <wink>.  Before going to sleep, Anthony suggested that

    Bug #1110478: Revert os.environ.update to do putenv again.

might be relevant.  HTF can we get a "no such file or directly" out of
a putenv()?!  Don't be shy.