FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

[malev]

I have an error when I'm trying to build a meta recipe in Windows.

BUILD START: anaconda-notebook-2.4-py34_0
Removing old work directory
Copying C:\Users\builder\Documents\GitHub\anaconda-notebook to C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\conda-bld\work
There was an error importing jinja2.
Please run `conda install jinja2` to enable jinja template support
Package: anaconda-notebook-2.4-py34_0
source tree in: C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\conda-bld\work
An unexpected error has occurred, please consider sending the
following traceback to the conda GitHub issue tracker at:

    https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues

Include the output of the command 'conda info' in your report.


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\Scripts\conda-build-script.py", line 4, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_build.py", line 110, in main
    args_func(args, p)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_build.py", line 312, in args_func
    args.func(args, p)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\main_build.py", line 272, in execute
    build.build(m, verbose=not args.quiet, post=post)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\build.py", line 365, in build
    windows.build(m)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\windows.py", line 95, in build
    env.update(environ.get_dict(m))
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\environ.py", line 94, in get_dict
    d.update(**get_git_build_info(d['SRC_DIR']))
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\conda_build\environ.py", line 47, in get_git_build_info
    env=env)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 858, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\lib\subprocess.py", line 1111, in _execute_child
    startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

PS C:\Users\builder\Documents\GitHub\anaconda-notebook> conda info
Current conda install:

             platform : win-64
        conda version : 3.9.0
  conda-build version : 1.10.2
       python version : 3.4.2.final.0
     requests version : 2.5.1
     root environment : C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3  (writable)
  default environment : C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3
     envs directories : C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\envs
        package cache : C:\Users\builder\Miniconda3\pkgs
         channel URLs : https://conda.binstar.org/javascript/win-64/
                        https://conda.binstar.org/javascript/noarch/
                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/win-64/
                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/free/noarch/
                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/win-64/
                        http://repo.continuum.io/pkgs/pro/noarch/
          config file : C:\Users\builder\.condarc
    is foreign system : False

[duncanwp]

Does anyone have a workaround for this - it's stopping me building anything on Windows...

[msarahan]

Do you have jinja2 installed? The traceback above seems to show that it is missing, but it is a requirement of the current conda build version. Please try

conda update conda-build

Which should bring in jinja 2 if you lack it.

[duncanwp]

Yes, I have jinja2 installed and conda-build looks up to date:

C:\Users\duncan\conda-recipes>conda list
# packages in environment at C:\Users\duncan\Anaconda:
#
_license                  1.1                      py27_0    <unknown>
alabaster                 0.7.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
anaconda                  2.3.0                np19py27_0    <unknown>
anaconda-client           1.0.2                    py27_0    defaults
argcomplete               0.9.0                    py27_0    defaults
astropy                   1.0.4                np19py27_0    defaults
babel                     1.3                      py27_0    <unknown>
backports.ssl-match-hostname 3.4.0.2                   <pip>
bcolz                     0.10.0               np19py27_0    defaults
beautiful-soup            4.3.2                    py27_1    <unknown>
beautifulsoup4            4.3.2                     <pip>
binstar                   0.12                          2    defaults
bitarray                  0.8.1                    py27_1    <unknown>
blaze                     0.8.2                     <pip>
blaze-core                0.8.2                np19py27_0    defaults
blz                       0.6.2                np19py27_1    <unknown>
bokeh                     0.9.3                np19py27_0    defaults
boto                      2.38.0                   py27_0    <unknown>
bottleneck                1.0.0                np19py27_0    <unknown>
cdecimal                  2.3                      py27_1    <unknown>
certifi                   14.05.14                 py27_0    <unknown>
cffi                      1.1.2                    py27_0    defaults
clyent                    0.4.0                    py27_0    defaults
colorama                  0.3.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
comtypes                  1.1.2                    py27_0    defaults
conda                     3.19.0                   py27_0    defaults
conda-build               1.18.2                   py27_0    defaults
conda-env                 2.4.5                    py27_0    defaults
configobj                 5.0.6                    py27_0    <unknown>
cryptography              0.9.3                    py27_0    defaults
cython                    0.23.2                   py27_0    defaults
cytoolz                   0.7.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
datashape                 0.4.6                np19py27_0    defaults
decorator                 4.0.2                    py27_0    defaults
docutils                  0.12                     py27_1    <unknown>
dynd-python               0.6.5                np19py27_0    <unknown>
enum34                    1.0.4                    py27_0    <unknown>
fastcache                 1.0.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
flask                     0.10.1                   py27_1    <unknown>
funcsigs                  0.4                      py27_0    <unknown>
gevent                    1.0.1                    py27_0    <unknown>
gevent-websocket          0.9.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
greenlet                  0.4.7                    py27_0    <unknown>
grin                      1.2.1                    py27_2    <unknown>
h5py                      2.5.0                np19py27_2    defaults
hdf5                      1.8.15.1                      2    <unknown>
idna                      2.0                      py27_0    <unknown>
ipaddress                 1.0.7                    py27_0    <unknown>
ipykernel                 4.0.3                    py27_0    defaults
ipython                   4.0.0                    py27_0    defaults
ipython-genutils          0.1.0                     <pip>
ipython-notebook          4.0.4                    py27_0    defaults
ipython-qtconsole         4.0.1                    py27_0    defaults
ipython_genutils          0.1.0                    py27_0    defaults
itsdangerous              0.24                     py27_0    <unknown>
jdcal                     1.0                      py27_0    <unknown>
jedi                      0.9.0                    py27_0    defaults
jinja2                    2.8                      py27_0    defaults
jsonschema                2.4.0                    py27_0    <unknown>
jupyter-client            4.0.0                     <pip>
jupyter-core              4.0.4                     <pip>
jupyter_client            4.0.0                    py27_0    defaults
jupyter_core              4.0.4                    py27_0    defaults
launcher                  1.0.0                         1    <unknown>
llvmlite                  0.7.0                    py27_5    defaults
lxml                      3.4.4                    py27_0    <unknown>
markupsafe                0.23                     py27_0    <unknown>
matplotlib                1.4.3                np19py27_1    <unknown>
menuinst                  1.3.1                    py27_0    defaults
mistune                   0.7.1                    py27_0    defaults
mock                      1.3.0                    py27_0    defaults
msvc_runtime              1.0.1                     vc9_0  [vc9]  defau
multipledispatch          0.4.8                    py27_0    defaults
nbconvert                 4.0.0                    py27_0    defaults
nbformat                  4.0.0                    py27_0    defaults
networkx                  1.10                     py27_0    defaults
nltk                      3.0.5                    py27_0    defaults
node-webkit               0.10.1                        0    <unknown>
nose                      1.3.7                    py27_0    <unknown>
notebook                  4.0.4                    py27_0    defaults
numba                     0.21.0               np19py27_0    defaults
numexpr                   2.4.3                np19py27_0    <unknown>
numpy                     1.9.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
odo                       0.3.3                np19py27_0    defaults
openpyxl                  2.0.2                    py27_0    defaults
pandas                    0.16.2               np19py27_0    <unknown>
patch                     2.5.9                         1    defaults
path.py                   7.6.1                    py27_0    defaults
patsy                     0.4.0                np19py27_0    defaults
pbr                       1.3.0                    py27_0    defaults
pep8                      1.6.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
pickleshare               0.5                      py27_0    defaults
pillow                    2.9.0                    py27_0    defaults
pip                       7.1.2                    py27_0    defaults
ply                       3.6                      py27_0    <unknown>
psutil                    3.2.2                    py27_0    defaults
py                        1.4.30                   py27_0    defaults
pyasn1                    0.1.7                    py27_0    <unknown>
pycosat                   0.6.1                    py27_0    <unknown>
pycparser                 2.14                     py27_0    <unknown>
pycrypto                  2.6.1                    py27_3    <unknown>
pyflakes                  0.9.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
pygments                  2.0.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
pyopenssl                 0.15.1                   py27_1    <unknown>
pyparsing                 2.0.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
pyqt                      4.10.4                   py27_1    <unknown>
pyreadline                2.0                      py27_0    <unknown>
pytables                  3.2.1.1              np19py27_0    defaults
pytest                    2.7.2                    py27_0    defaults
python                    2.7.11                        0    defaults
python-dateutil           2.4.2                    py27_0    <unknown>
pytz                      2015.4                   py27_0    <unknown>
pywin32                   219                      py27_0    <unknown>
pyyaml                    3.11                     py27_2    defaults
pyzmq                     14.7.0                   py27_0    <unknown>
qtconsole                 4.0.1                    py27_0    defaults
requests                  2.9.0                    py27_0    defaults
rope                      0.9.4                    py27_1    <unknown>
runipy                    0.1.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
scikit-image              0.11.3               np19py27_0    <unknown>
scikit-learn              0.16.1               np19py27_0    <unknown>
scipy                     0.16.0               np19py27_0    defaults
setuptools                19.1.1                   py27_0    defaults
simplegeneric             0.8.1                    py27_0    defaults
singledispatch            3.4.0.3                  py27_0    defaults
six                       1.9.0                    py27_0    <unknown>
snowballstemmer           1.2.0                    py27_0    <unknown>
sockjs-tornado            1.0.1                    py27_0    <unknown>
sphinx                    1.3.1                    py27_0    <unknown>
sphinx-rtd-theme          0.1.7                     <pip>
sphinx_rtd_theme          0.1.7                    py27_0    <unknown>
spyder                    2.3.6                    py27_0    defaults
spyder-app                2.3.6                    py27_0    defaults
sqlalchemy                1.0.8                    py27_0    defaults
ssl_match_hostname        3.4.0.2                  py27_0    <unknown>
statsmodels               0.6.1                np19py27_0    <unknown>
sympy                     0.7.6.1                  py27_0    defaults
tables                    3.2.1.1                   <pip>
toolz                     0.7.4                    py27_0    defaults
tornado                   4.2.1                    py27_0    defaults
traitlets                 4.0.0                    py27_0    defaults
ujson                     1.33                     py27_0    <unknown>
unicodecsv                0.13.0                   py27_0    defaults
werkzeug                  0.10.4                   py27_0    <unknown>
wheel                     0.26.0                   py27_1    defaults
xlrd                      0.9.4                    py27_0    defaults
xlsxwriter                0.7.3                    py27_0    <unknown>
xlwings                   0.4.0                    py27_0    defaults
xlwt                      1.0.0                    py27_0    <unknown>
zlib                      1.2.8                         0    <unknown>

There appears to be a fix against the associated issue: #474 but it's not been pulled in yet.

[duncanwp]

Thanks for getting back to me though - any help would be appreciated.

[msarahan]

Thanks. I will review that PR quickly and either merge it or fix the issue otherwise.

[duncanwp]

Awesome - thanks!

[msarahan]

This should now be fixed in master. We will work on a release soon.

[duncanwp]

That's great, thanks for taking a look at this. Now you know what the issue was do you have any suggestions for a quick workaround? Would a reinstall of conda work?

[msarahan]

The quickest workaround would be to go in and manually apply the change from https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/723/files to your installed conda-build source code.

[duncanwp]

I've tried folding in that pull request but it doesn't seem to fix the issue I'm seeing above. Apologies but it looks like I may have conflated two different issues.

The one above is coming out of main_build.py and seems to be git related. Could it be a problem with not finding git? I have git bash installed, but I've tried pointing my recipe to a local path and it still gives the same stack, any thoughts?

[msarahan]

Is git on PATH? Bear in mind that some variables are set in a way that does not persist to subprocesses. You need the path to git.exe to be persistent in subprocesses. One way to test this would be simply:

import subprocess
subprocess.check_call("git --version")

or, if using git bash, what happens if you type "bash" at your prompt - is git still in your PATH?

[duncanwp]

Yes, that was the problem after all - sorry for the confusion...!

[msarahan]

No problem - thanks for digging up that other PR. It needed attention, anyway.

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