Sridhar Ratnakumar <[email protected]> added the comment:
On 2010-08-17, at 9:01 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> I now understand why my script fails, and it is caused by this issue.
>
> The sysconfig.py code has another major issue: the use of os.putenv. This
> changes the environment, without changing os.environ. The use of os.putenv
> should be replaced by setting keys in os.environ to make it easier to
> discover that changes have been made.
>
> Even that is no good: setting the environment variable should only be done in
> distutils to ensure that the right build environment is used. It should not
> be set globally where it will affect code that it was never intended to
> affect.
I agree that environment variable should only be affected during distutils
build, and not globally.
I now recall debugging this issue (with 2.7 alpha/beta, I guess) and arriving
at the same confusion.
> BTW. Sridhar: could this be the reason you cannot find the correct
> reproduction steps for this? Do you use a build script that is writting in
> python and run with a copy of python where
> sysconfig.get_config_var('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') returns '10.3'?
Yes, but I am not entirely sure if that copy of python returned 10.3, and I no
longer have that copy ... as I've been upgrading 2.6 and 2.7 pretty often in
our two Mac build machines.
----------
_______________________________________
Python tracker <[email protected]>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue9516>
_______________________________________
_______________________________________________
Python-bugs-list mailing list
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
