Patch from Perry Stoll: support for Windows.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
index 24e76ef..3a0702d 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/spawn.py
@@ -33,23 +33,42 @@
if os.name == 'posix':
_spawn_posix (cmd, search_path, verbose, dry_run)
- elif os.name == 'windows': # ???
- # XXX should 'args' be cmd[1:] or cmd?
- # XXX how do we detect failure?
- # XXX how to do this in pre-1.5.2?
- # XXX is P_WAIT the correct mode?
- # XXX how to make Windows search the path?
- if verbose:
- print string.join (cmd, ' ')
- if not dry_run:
- os.spawnv (os.P_WAIT, cmd[0], cmd[1:])
+ elif os.name in ( 'nt', 'windows' ): # ???
+ _spawn_nt (cmd, search_path, verbose, dry_run)
else:
raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
"don't know how to spawn programs on platform '%s'" % os.name
# spawn ()
+def _spawn_nt ( cmd,
+ search_path=1,
+ verbose=0,
+ dry_run=0):
+ import string
+ executable = cmd[0]
+ if search_path:
+ paths = string.split( os.environ['PATH'], os.pathsep)
+ base,ext = os.path.splitext(executable)
+ if (ext != '.exe'):
+ executable = executable + '.exe'
+ if not os.path.isfile(executable):
+ paths.reverse() # go over the paths and keep the last one
+ for p in paths:
+ f = os.path.join( p, executable )
+ if os.path.isfile ( f ):
+ # the file exists, we have a shot at spawn working
+ executable = f
+ if verbose:
+ print string.join ( [executable] + cmd[1:], ' ')
+ if not dry_run:
+ # spawn for NT requires a full path to the .exe
+ rc = os.spawnv (os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd)
+ if rc != 0:
+ raise DistutilsExecError("command failed: %d" % rc)
+
+
def _spawn_posix (cmd,
search_path=1,
verbose=0,