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diff --git a/lib/spack/external/py/_process/cmdexec.py b/lib/spack/external/py/_process/cmdexec.py
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+import sys
+import subprocess
+import py
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+def cmdexec(cmd):
+    """ return unicode output of executing 'cmd' in a separate process.
+
+    raise cmdexec.Error exeception if the command failed.
+    the exception will provide an 'err' attribute containing
+    the error-output from the command.
+    if the subprocess module does not provide a proper encoding/unicode strings
+    sys.getdefaultencoding() will be used, if that does not exist, 'UTF-8'.
+    """
+    process = subprocess.Popen(cmd, shell=True,
+            universal_newlines=True,
+            stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
+    out, err = process.communicate()
+    if sys.version_info[0] < 3: # on py3 we get unicode strings, on py2 not
+        try:
+            default_encoding = sys.getdefaultencoding() # jython may not have it
+        except AttributeError:
+            default_encoding = sys.stdout.encoding or 'UTF-8'
+        out = unicode(out, process.stdout.encoding or default_encoding)
+        err = unicode(err, process.stderr.encoding or default_encoding)
+    status = process.poll()
+    if status:
+        raise ExecutionFailed(status, status, cmd, out, err)
+    return out
+
+class ExecutionFailed(py.error.Error):
+    def __init__(self, status, systemstatus, cmd, out, err):
+        Exception.__init__(self)
+        self.status = status
+        self.systemstatus = systemstatus
+        self.cmd = cmd
+        self.err = err
+        self.out = out
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return "ExecutionFailed: %d  %s\n%s" %(self.status, self.cmd, self.err)
+
+# export the exception under the name 'py.process.cmdexec.Error'
+cmdexec.Error = ExecutionFailed
+try:
+    ExecutionFailed.__module__ = 'py.process.cmdexec'
+    ExecutionFailed.__name__ = 'Error'
+except (AttributeError, TypeError):
+    pass