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author | Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org> | 2003-11-28 19:42:56 (GMT) |
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committer | Thomas Heller <theller@ctypes.org> | 2003-11-28 19:42:56 (GMT) |
commit | b3105911697d57098e9770078d89475f83274344 (patch) | |
tree | 7b12ff6cd615c33579d11cdef4db07a0821eacd0 | |
parent | ac5d667e9f1b79b0d0ca6f5c8edd4f02feecd98f (diff) | |
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See SF #848614: distutils' msvccompiler now tries to detect that MSVC6
is installed but the registry settings are incomplete because the gui
has never been run.
Already backported to release23-maint.
-rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS | 3 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py index 5f3d8de..27fb658 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py @@ -547,6 +547,16 @@ class MSVCCompiler (CCompiler) : return string.split(self.__macros.sub(d[path]), ";") else: return string.split(d[path], ";") + # MSVC 6 seems to create the registry entries we need only when + # the GUI is run. + if self.__version == 6: + for base in HKEYS: + if read_values(base, r"%s\6.0" % self.__root) is not None: + self.warn("It seems you have Visual Studio 6 installed, " + "but the expected registry settings are not present.\n" + "You must at least run the Visual Studio GUI once " + "so that these entries are created.") + break return [] def set_path_env_var(self, name): @@ -146,6 +146,9 @@ Extension modules Library ------- +- Bug #848614: distutils' msvccompiler fails to find the MSVC6 + compiler because of incomplete registry entries. + - httplib.HTTP.putrequest now offers to omit the implicit Accept-Encoding. - Patch #841977: modulefinder didn't find extension modules in packages |