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      1 """distutils.spawn
      2 
      3 Provides the 'spawn()' function, a front-end to various platform-
      4 specific functions for launching another program in a sub-process.
      5 Also provides the 'find_executable()' to search the path for a given
      6 executable name.
      7 """
      8 
      9 __revision__ = "$Id$"
     10 
     11 import sys
     12 import os
     13 
     14 from distutils.errors import DistutilsPlatformError, DistutilsExecError
     15 from distutils import log
     16 
     17 def spawn(cmd, search_path=1, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     18     """Run another program, specified as a command list 'cmd', in a new process.
     19 
     20     'cmd' is just the argument list for the new process, ie.
     21     cmd[0] is the program to run and cmd[1:] are the rest of its arguments.
     22     There is no way to run a program with a name different from that of its
     23     executable.
     24 
     25     If 'search_path' is true (the default), the system's executable
     26     search path will be used to find the program; otherwise, cmd[0]
     27     must be the exact path to the executable.  If 'dry_run' is true,
     28     the command will not actually be run.
     29 
     30     Raise DistutilsExecError if running the program fails in any way; just
     31     return on success.
     32     """
     33     if os.name == 'posix':
     34         _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
     35     elif os.name == 'nt':
     36         _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
     37     elif os.name == 'os2':
     38         _spawn_os2(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
     39     else:
     40         raise DistutilsPlatformError, \
     41               "don't know how to spawn programs on platform '%s'" % os.name
     42 
     43 def _nt_quote_args(args):
     44     """Quote command-line arguments for DOS/Windows conventions.
     45 
     46     Just wraps every argument which contains blanks in double quotes, and
     47     returns a new argument list.
     48     """
     49     # XXX this doesn't seem very robust to me -- but if the Windows guys
     50     # say it'll work, I guess I'll have to accept it.  (What if an arg
     51     # contains quotes?  What other magic characters, other than spaces,
     52     # have to be escaped?  Is there an escaping mechanism other than
     53     # quoting?)
     54     for i, arg in enumerate(args):
     55         if ' ' in arg:
     56             args[i] = '"%s"' % arg
     57     return args
     58 
     59 def _spawn_nt(cmd, search_path=1, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     60     executable = cmd[0]
     61     cmd = _nt_quote_args(cmd)
     62     if search_path:
     63         # either we find one or it stays the same
     64         executable = find_executable(executable) or executable
     65     log.info(' '.join([executable] + cmd[1:]))
     66     if not dry_run:
     67         # spawn for NT requires a full path to the .exe
     68         try:
     69             rc = os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd)
     70         except OSError, exc:
     71             # this seems to happen when the command isn't found
     72             raise DistutilsExecError, \
     73                   "command '%s' failed: %s" % (cmd[0], exc[-1])
     74         if rc != 0:
     75             # and this reflects the command running but failing
     76             raise DistutilsExecError, \
     77                   "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc)
     78 
     79 def _spawn_os2(cmd, search_path=1, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
     80     executable = cmd[0]
     81     if search_path:
     82         # either we find one or it stays the same
     83         executable = find_executable(executable) or executable
     84     log.info(' '.join([executable] + cmd[1:]))
     85     if not dry_run:
     86         # spawnv for OS/2 EMX requires a full path to the .exe
     87         try:
     88             rc = os.spawnv(os.P_WAIT, executable, cmd)
     89         except OSError, exc:
     90             # this seems to happen when the command isn't found
     91             raise DistutilsExecError, \
     92                   "command '%s' failed: %s" % (cmd[0], exc[-1])
     93         if rc != 0:
     94             # and this reflects the command running but failing
     95             log.debug("command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc))
     96             raise DistutilsExecError, \
     97                   "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % (cmd[0], rc)
     98 
     99 if sys.platform == 'darwin':
    100     from distutils import sysconfig
    101     _cfg_target = None
    102     _cfg_target_split = None
    103 
    104 def _spawn_posix(cmd, search_path=1, verbose=0, dry_run=0):
    105     log.info(' '.join(cmd))
    106     if dry_run:
    107         return
    108     exec_fn = search_path and os.execvp or os.execv
    109     exec_args = [cmd[0], cmd]
    110     if sys.platform == 'darwin':
    111         global _cfg_target, _cfg_target_split
    112         if _cfg_target is None:
    113             _cfg_target = sysconfig.get_config_var(
    114                                   'MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET') or ''
    115             if _cfg_target:
    116                 _cfg_target_split = [int(x) for x in _cfg_target.split('.')]
    117         if _cfg_target:
    118             # ensure that the deployment target of build process is not less
    119             # than that used when the interpreter was built. This ensures
    120             # extension modules are built with correct compatibility values
    121             cur_target = os.environ.get('MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET', _cfg_target)
    122             if _cfg_target_split > [int(x) for x in cur_target.split('.')]:
    123                 my_msg = ('$MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: '
    124                           'now "%s" but "%s" during configure'
    125                                 % (cur_target, _cfg_target))
    126                 raise DistutilsPlatformError(my_msg)
    127             env = dict(os.environ,
    128                        MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=cur_target)
    129             exec_fn = search_path and os.execvpe or os.execve
    130             exec_args.append(env)
    131     pid = os.fork()
    132 
    133     if pid == 0:  # in the child
    134         try:
    135             exec_fn(*exec_args)
    136         except OSError, e:
    137             sys.stderr.write("unable to execute %s: %s\n" %
    138                              (cmd[0], e.strerror))
    139             os._exit(1)
    140 
    141         sys.stderr.write("unable to execute %s for unknown reasons" % cmd[0])
    142         os._exit(1)
    143     else:   # in the parent
    144         # Loop until the child either exits or is terminated by a signal
    145         # (ie. keep waiting if it's merely stopped)
    146         while 1:
    147             try:
    148                 pid, status = os.waitpid(pid, 0)
    149             except OSError, exc:
    150                 import errno
    151                 if exc.errno == errno.EINTR:
    152                     continue
    153                 raise DistutilsExecError, \
    154                       "command '%s' failed: %s" % (cmd[0], exc[-1])
    155             if os.WIFSIGNALED(status):
    156                 raise DistutilsExecError, \
    157                       "command '%s' terminated by signal %d" % \
    158                       (cmd[0], os.WTERMSIG(status))
    159 
    160             elif os.WIFEXITED(status):
    161                 exit_status = os.WEXITSTATUS(status)
    162                 if exit_status == 0:
    163                     return   # hey, it succeeded!
    164                 else:
    165                     raise DistutilsExecError, \
    166                           "command '%s' failed with exit status %d" % \
    167                           (cmd[0], exit_status)
    168 
    169             elif os.WIFSTOPPED(status):
    170                 continue
    171 
    172             else:
    173                 raise DistutilsExecError, \
    174                       "unknown error executing '%s': termination status %d" % \
    175                       (cmd[0], status)
    176 
    177 def find_executable(executable, path=None):
    178     """Tries to find 'executable' in the directories listed in 'path'.
    179 
    180     A string listing directories separated by 'os.pathsep'; defaults to
    181     os.environ['PATH'].  Returns the complete filename or None if not found.
    182     """
    183     if path is None:
    184         path = os.environ['PATH']
    185     paths = path.split(os.pathsep)
    186     base, ext = os.path.splitext(executable)
    187 
    188     if (sys.platform == 'win32' or os.name == 'os2') and (ext != '.exe'):
    189         executable = executable + '.exe'
    190 
    191     if not os.path.isfile(executable):
    192         for p in paths:
    193             f = os.path.join(p, executable)
    194             if os.path.isfile(f):
    195                 # the file exists, we have a shot at spawn working
    196                 return f
    197         return None
    198     else:
    199         return executable
    200