[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] cpython (2.7): - Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files

Andrew Svetlov andrew.svetlov at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 05:54:30 CET 2013


Great!

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 3:02 PM, matthias.klose
<python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/66e30c4870bb
> changeset:   82872:66e30c4870bb
> branch:      2.7
> parent:      82843:71adf21421d9
> user:        doko at ubuntu.com
> date:        Thu Mar 21 15:02:16 2013 -0700
> summary:
>   - Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
>   when imported, instead doing it at build time.  This makes importing
>   sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
>
> files:
>   Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py |  63 +--------------------
>   Lib/pprint.py              |   5 +-
>   Lib/sysconfig.py           |  75 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   Makefile.pre.in            |  12 +++-
>   Misc/NEWS                  |   4 +
>   5 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
> --- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
> +++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
> @@ -387,66 +387,11 @@
>
>  def _init_posix():
>      """Initialize the module as appropriate for POSIX systems."""
> -    g = {}
> -    # load the installed Makefile:
> -    try:
> -        filename = get_makefile_filename()
> -        parse_makefile(filename, g)
> -    except IOError, msg:
> -        my_msg = "invalid Python installation: unable to open %s" % filename
> -        if hasattr(msg, "strerror"):
> -            my_msg = my_msg + " (%s)" % msg.strerror
> -
> -        raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
> -
> -    # load the installed pyconfig.h:
> -    try:
> -        filename = get_config_h_filename()
> -        parse_config_h(file(filename), g)
> -    except IOError, msg:
> -        my_msg = "invalid Python installation: unable to open %s" % filename
> -        if hasattr(msg, "strerror"):
> -            my_msg = my_msg + " (%s)" % msg.strerror
> -
> -        raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
> -
> -    # On AIX, there are wrong paths to the linker scripts in the Makefile
> -    # -- these paths are relative to the Python source, but when installed
> -    # the scripts are in another directory.
> -    if python_build:
> -        g['LDSHARED'] = g['BLDSHARED']
> -
> -    elif get_python_version() < '2.1':
> -        # The following two branches are for 1.5.2 compatibility.
> -        if sys.platform == 'aix4':          # what about AIX 3.x ?
> -            # Linker script is in the config directory, not in Modules as the
> -            # Makefile says.
> -            python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
> -            ld_so_aix = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config', 'ld_so_aix')
> -            python_exp = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config', 'python.exp')
> -
> -            g['LDSHARED'] = "%s %s -bI:%s" % (ld_so_aix, g['CC'], python_exp)
> -
> -        elif sys.platform == 'beos':
> -            # Linker script is in the config directory.  In the Makefile it is
> -            # relative to the srcdir, which after installation no longer makes
> -            # sense.
> -            python_lib = get_python_lib(standard_lib=1)
> -            linkerscript_path = string.split(g['LDSHARED'])[0]
> -            linkerscript_name = os.path.basename(linkerscript_path)
> -            linkerscript = os.path.join(python_lib, 'config',
> -                                        linkerscript_name)
> -
> -            # XXX this isn't the right place to do this: adding the Python
> -            # library to the link, if needed, should be in the "build_ext"
> -            # command.  (It's also needed for non-MS compilers on Windows, and
> -            # it's taken care of for them by the 'build_ext.get_libraries()'
> -            # method.)
> -            g['LDSHARED'] = ("%s -L%s/lib -lpython%s" %
> -                             (linkerscript, PREFIX, get_python_version()))
> -
> +    # _sysconfigdata is generated at build time, see the sysconfig module
> +    from _sysconfigdata import build_time_vars
>      global _config_vars
> -    _config_vars = g
> +    _config_vars = {}
> +    _config_vars.update(build_time_vars)
>
>
>  def _init_nt():
> diff --git a/Lib/pprint.py b/Lib/pprint.py
> --- a/Lib/pprint.py
> +++ b/Lib/pprint.py
> @@ -37,7 +37,10 @@
>  import sys as _sys
>  import warnings
>
> -from cStringIO import StringIO as _StringIO
> +try:
> +    from cStringIO import StringIO as _StringIO
> +except ImportError:
> +    from StringIO import StringIO as _StringIO
>
>  __all__ = ["pprint","pformat","isreadable","isrecursive","saferepr",
>             "PrettyPrinter"]
> diff --git a/Lib/sysconfig.py b/Lib/sysconfig.py
> --- a/Lib/sysconfig.py
> +++ b/Lib/sysconfig.py
> @@ -278,9 +278,10 @@
>          return os.path.join(_PROJECT_BASE, "Makefile")
>      return os.path.join(get_path('platstdlib'), "config", "Makefile")
>
> -
> -def _init_posix(vars):
> -    """Initialize the module as appropriate for POSIX systems."""
> +def _generate_posix_vars():
> +    """Generate the Python module containing build-time variables."""
> +    import pprint
> +    vars = {}
>      # load the installed Makefile:
>      makefile = _get_makefile_filename()
>      try:
> @@ -308,6 +309,49 @@
>      if _PYTHON_BUILD:
>          vars['LDSHARED'] = vars['BLDSHARED']
>
> +    # There's a chicken-and-egg situation on OS X with regards to the
> +    # _sysconfigdata module after the changes introduced by #15298:
> +    # get_config_vars() is called by get_platform() as part of the
> +    # `make pybuilddir.txt` target -- which is a precursor to the
> +    # _sysconfigdata.py module being constructed.  Unfortunately,
> +    # get_config_vars() eventually calls _init_posix(), which attempts
> +    # to import _sysconfigdata, which we won't have built yet.  In order
> +    # for _init_posix() to work, if we're on Darwin, just mock up the
> +    # _sysconfigdata module manually and populate it with the build vars.
> +    # This is more than sufficient for ensuring the subsequent call to
> +    # get_platform() succeeds.
> +    name = '_sysconfigdata'
> +    if 'darwin' in sys.platform:
> +        import imp
> +        module = imp.new_module(name)
> +        module.build_time_vars = vars
> +        sys.modules[name] = module
> +
> +    pybuilddir = 'build/lib.%s-%s' % (get_platform(), sys.version[:3])
> +    if hasattr(sys, "gettotalrefcount"):
> +        pybuilddir += '-pydebug'
> +    try:
> +        os.makedirs(pybuilddir)
> +    except OSError:
> +        pass
> +    destfile = os.path.join(pybuilddir, name + '.py')
> +
> +    with open(destfile, 'wb') as f:
> +        f.write('# system configuration generated and used by'
> +                ' the sysconfig module\n')
> +        f.write('build_time_vars = ')
> +        pprint.pprint(vars, stream=f)
> +
> +    # Create file used for sys.path fixup -- see Modules/getpath.c
> +    with open('pybuilddir.txt', 'w') as f:
> +        f.write(pybuilddir)
> +
> +def _init_posix(vars):
> +    """Initialize the module as appropriate for POSIX systems."""
> +    # _sysconfigdata is generated at build time, see _generate_posix_vars()
> +    from _sysconfigdata import build_time_vars
> +    vars.update(build_time_vars)
> +
>  def _init_non_posix(vars):
>      """Initialize the module as appropriate for NT"""
>      # set basic install directories
> @@ -565,3 +609,28 @@
>
>  def get_python_version():
>      return _PY_VERSION_SHORT
> +
> +
> +def _print_dict(title, data):
> +    for index, (key, value) in enumerate(sorted(data.items())):
> +        if index == 0:
> +            print '%s: ' % (title)
> +        print '\t%s = "%s"' % (key, value)
> +
> +
> +def _main():
> +    """Display all information sysconfig detains."""
> +    if '--generate-posix-vars' in sys.argv:
> +        _generate_posix_vars()
> +        return
> +    print 'Platform: "%s"' % get_platform()
> +    print 'Python version: "%s"' % get_python_version()
> +    print 'Current installation scheme: "%s"' % _get_default_scheme()
> +    print
> +    _print_dict('Paths', get_paths())
> +    print
> +    _print_dict('Variables', get_config_vars())
> +
> +
> +if __name__ == '__main__':
> +    _main()
> diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
> --- a/Makefile.pre.in
> +++ b/Makefile.pre.in
> @@ -437,15 +437,20 @@
>                         Modules/python.o \
>                         $(BLDLIBRARY) $(LIBS) $(MODLIBS) $(SYSLIBS) $(LDLAST)
>
> -platform: $(BUILDPYTHON)
> +platform: $(BUILDPYTHON) pybuilddir.txt
>         $(RUNSHARED) $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -c 'import sys ; from sysconfig import get_platform ; print get_platform()+"-"+sys.version[0:3]' >platform
>
> +# Create build directory and generate the sysconfig build-time data there.
> +# pybuilddir.txt contains the name of the build dir and is used for
> +# sys.path fixup -- see Modules/getpath.c.
> +pybuilddir.txt: $(BUILDPYTHON)
> +               $(RUNSHARED) $(PYTHON_FOR_BUILD) -S -m sysconfig --generate-posix-vars
>
>  # Build the shared modules
>  # Under GNU make, MAKEFLAGS are sorted and normalized; the 's' for
>  # -s, --silent or --quiet is always the first char.
>  # Under BSD make, MAKEFLAGS might be " -s -v x=y".
> -sharedmods: $(BUILDPYTHON)
> +sharedmods: $(BUILDPYTHON) pybuilddir.txt
>         @case "$$MAKEFLAGS" in \
>             *\ -s*|s*) quiet="-q";; \
>             *) quiet="";; \
> @@ -955,7 +960,7 @@
>                 else    true; \
>                 fi; \
>         done
> -       @for i in $(srcdir)/Lib/*.py $(srcdir)/Lib/*.doc $(srcdir)/Lib/*.egg-info ; \
> +       @for i in $(srcdir)/Lib/*.py `cat pybuilddir.txt`/_sysconfigdata.py $(srcdir)/Lib/*.doc $(srcdir)/Lib/*.egg-info ; \
>         do \
>                 if test -x $$i; then \
>                         $(INSTALL_SCRIPT) $$i $(DESTDIR)$(LIBDEST); \
> @@ -1133,6 +1138,7 @@
>                 --install-scripts=$(BINDIR) \
>                 --install-platlib=$(DESTSHARED) \
>                 --root=$(DESTDIR)/
> +       -rm $(DESTDIR)$(DESTSHARED)/_sysconfigdata.py*
>
>  # Here are a couple of targets for MacOSX again, to install a full
>  # framework-based Python. frameworkinstall installs everything, the
> diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
> --- a/Misc/NEWS
> +++ b/Misc/NEWS
> @@ -216,6 +216,10 @@
>  Library
>  -------
>
> +- Issue #13150: sysconfig no longer parses the Makefile and config.h files
> +  when imported, instead doing it at build time.  This makes importing
> +  sysconfig faster and reduces Python startup time by 20%.
> +
>  - Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
>
>  - Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes
>
> --
> Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython
>
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-- 
Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov


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