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| -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(): |