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| author | Greg Ward <gward@python.net> | 2000-05-23 23:14:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Greg Ward <gward@python.net> | 2000-05-23 23:14:00 (GMT) |
| commit | a570c059976b4ed402f2edc7c44b378475ae50a6 (patch) | |
| tree | c3f296ea61d97118429e0c1e247f1d331ea4cc82 | |
| parent | f1dc5fa2c8d97e3618a0a260e9f831e5e2fae554 (diff) | |
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Catch failure to open installed Makefile, and report it as a
DistutilsPlatformError: "invalid Python installation". (This will
happen on Red Hat-ish systems where the python-devel package is not
installed.)
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py index 5cc71dc..a5f3816 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py @@ -229,7 +229,17 @@ def _init_posix(): """Initialize the module as appropriate for POSIX systems.""" g = globals() # load the installed Makefile: - parse_makefile(open(get_makefile_filename()), g) + try: + filename = get_makefile_filename() + file = open(filename) + 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 + + parse_makefile(file, g) def _init_nt(): |