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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py index d91c089..79c95ae 100644 --- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py +++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py @@ -253,8 +253,14 @@ class bdist_wininst (Command): # empty pre-install script cfgdata = cfgdata + "\0" file.write(cfgdata) + + # The 'magic number' 0x1234567B is used to make sure that the + # binary layout of 'cfgdata' is what the wininst.exe binary + # expects. If the layout changes, increment that number, make + # the corresponding changes to the wininst.exe sources, and + # recompile them. header = struct.pack("<iii", - 0x1234567A, # tag + 0x1234567B, # tag len(cfgdata), # length bitmaplen, # number of bytes in bitmap ) |