pyinstaller --onefile option gives peculiar warning

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2013/09/27
Original reporter: *jos DOT postma AND gmail DOT COOM *

Building the .exe seems to work out fine, however, running it gives:

WARNING: file already exists but should not: D:\Users\postma\AppData\Local\Temp_MEI33522\Include\pyconfig.h

When I build the .exe WITHOUT the --onefile option the warning does not appear upon running the executable.

[matysek]

Original date: 2013/09/27

Thanks for reporting.

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2013/10/04
Original reporter: anonymous

I ran the archive_viewer.py utility (from PyInstaller) on one of my own --onefile executables that has the same error and found that pyconfig.h is included twice:

(31374007, 6521, 21529, 1, 'x', 'include\\pyconfig.h'),
(31380528, 6521, 21529, 1, 'x', 'Include\\pyconfig.h'),
(31387049, 984, 2102, 1, 'x', 'pytz\\zoneinfo\\CET'),

Ilya Tolchinsky over at StackOverflow found a workaround:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/19163950/1354930

--dthor

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2013/11/27
Original reporter: *wtobia AND gmail DOT COOM *

I ran into the same problem, and figured out that it is due to the case-insensitive Windows paths leading to multiple tuples in the TOC:

('Include\\pyconfig.h', 'C:\\Python27\\Include\\pyconfig.h', 'DATA')
('include\\pyconfig.h', 'C:\\Python27\\include\\pyconfig.h', 'DATA')

In order to solve this, I made the following change in build.py, class TOC, def append:

            if tpl[2] in ["BINARY", "DATA"]:
                # Normalize the case for binary files only (to avoid duplicates
                # for different cases under Windows). We can't do that for
                # Python files because the import semantic (even at runtime)
                # depends on the case.

This code is already there for BINARY, I simply added DATA. But I'm not sure if this could be the real solution. It might introduce other incompatibilities.

[matysek]

Original date: 2014/01/13

pyconfig.h is included in the following hooks. Probably one hook does not handle pyconfig.h properly and uses lower or upper case version.

./PyInstaller/hooks/hook-sysconfig.py
./PyInstaller/hooks/hook-distutils.py

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2014/05/14
Original reporter: *hithwen AND gmail DOT COOM *

I'm having a similar issue but with Makefile (running in Linux, from a virtual env):
'WARNING: file already exists but should not: /tmp/_MEI8ujVxl/../../../usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/Makefile\n../../../usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/Makefile could not be extracted!\n'

In out00-Analysis.toc I can see:
('lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', '/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', 'DATA') as the only appearances

but in /logdict2.7.3.final.0-1.log I can see two datas declaration:

datas=[('include/python2.7/pyconfig.h', '/usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h', 'DATA'), ('lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', '/usr/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', 'DATA')]>
datas=[('local/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h', '$VIRTUAL_ENV/local/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h', 'DATA'), ('lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', '$VIRTUAL_ENV/lib/python2.7/config/Makefile', 'DATA')]>

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2014/05/28
Original reporter: lorenzo AND villani DOT me

I'd like to add that we've been using the solution proposed in comment:5 for around six months without problems.

[pyinstaller-tickets-migration]

Original date: 2014/05/28
Original reporter: lorenzo AND villani DOT me

I'd like to add that we've been using the solution proposed in comment:5 for around six months without problems.

[matysek]

Original date: 2014/06/10

This should be fixed in the development version.

[htgoebel]

Original date: 2014/07/14

Replying to [comment:7 hithwen@…]:

I'm having a similar issue but with Makefile (running in Linux, from a virtual env):

Thanks for your pull-request #145. I just merged it.