Message 72831 - Python tracker

Message72831

Author	ocean-city
Recipients	ocean-city
Date	2008-09-09.08:39:02
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Message-id	<1220949545.4.0.793432672425.issue3813@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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On cygwin, py3k aborts if lanches it via symbolic link. //////////// message beg ///////////////////////// Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8 Aborted (core dumped) //////////// message end ///////////////////////// This is because mbstowcs() on cygwin is broken, so _Py_wreadlink() in Modules/getpath.c is also broken. I'll attach two patches to fix this. I don't know which is better.

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On cygwin, py3k aborts if lanches it via symbolic link.

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Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: can't initialize sys standard streams
ImportError: No module named encodings.utf_8
Aborted (core dumped)

//////////// message end  /////////////////////////

This is because mbstowcs() on cygwin is broken, so _Py_wreadlink() in
Modules/getpath.c is also broken. I'll attach two patches to fix this. I
don't know which is better.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-09-09 08:39:05	ocean-city	set	recipients: + ocean-city
2008-09-09 08:39:05	ocean-city	set	messageid: <1220949545.4.0.793432672425.issue3813@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008-09-09 08:39:04	ocean-city	link	issue3813 messages
2008-09-09 08:39:03	ocean-city	create