reduce usage of PEX_MODULE when not needed#23016
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reduce usage of PEX_MODULE when not needed#23016cburroughs wants to merge 1 commit intopantsbuild:mainfrom
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See pantsbuild@31ca16c#r174188058 Using PEX_TOOLs as we do elsewhere is less coupling to Pex's internals. AI Disclosure: An LLM was instructed to generate code to cleanup the mess it made.
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| pex_executable = os.path.join(rule_runner.build_root, "pex_exe/pex_exe.pex") | ||
| return subprocess.run( | ||
| args=[pex_executable, "interpreter", "inspect", "-mt"], | ||
| env=dict(PEX_MODULE="pex.cli", **os.environ), |
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This is incorrect. The pex_exe/pex_exe.pex is built with -c pex as the entry point, and pex interpreter ... is a hard error (Welp, not a hard error. Both interpreter and inspect get treated as requirements and -mt sets the entry point to the module t. Good luck with that!) You get away with it only because the fixture is unused. If it were used, you'd want PEX_SCRIPT="pex3" to decouple from the pex.cli module internal detail FWIW.
Also, FWIW, I started publishing Pex PEX scies a while back. These are BusyBox scies:
:; curl -fsSLO https://github.com/pex-tool/pex/releases/download/v2.81.0/pex-linux-x86_64
:; chmod +x pex-linux-x86_64
:; ./pex-linux-x86_64
Error: Could not determine which command to run.
Please select from the following boot commands:
pex
pex-tools
pex3
pexec
You can select a boot command by setting the SCIE_BOOT environment variable or else by passing it as the 1st argument.If Pants used those it could truly treat Pex as a native binary and not need to bootstrap a Python for it.
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31ca16c#r174188058
Using PEX_TOOLs as we do elsewhere is less coupling to Pex's internals.
AI Disclosure: An LLM was instructed to generate code to cleanup the mess it made.