From a420014e771d33e2514c0b4f3fc98d3085026a08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 20:23:33 -0700
Subject: PY2/3 Ensure system root is not unicode on py2

---
 src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py
index a735899..0e9e01f 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/win32.py
@@ -287,6 +287,10 @@ def get_system_root():
                 raise
             except:
                 pass
+
+    # Ensure system root is a string and not unicode 
+    # (This only matters for py27 were unicode in env passed to POpen fails)
+    val = str(val)
     _system_root = val
     return val
 
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