I am seeing the following error in a message box when trying to add a new
platform with MIC:

ERROR!
<Built-in function exc_info>

It appears to only happen when selecting anything other than mccaslin-lpia
or menlow-lpia as the target platform.

For example, plain menlow-lpia works, but menlow-lpia

Looks like this might be python trying to throw an exception unsuccessfully:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sys.html

exc_info(      )
    This function returns a tuple of three values that give information
about the exception that is currently being handled. The information
returned is specific both to the current thread and to the current stack
frame. If the current stack frame is not handling an exception, the
information is taken from the calling stack frame, or its caller, and so on
until a stack frame is found that is handling an exception. Here, ``handling
an exception'' is defined as ``executing or having executed an except
clause.'' For any stack frame, only information about the most recently
handled exception is accessible.

    If no exception is being handled anywhere on the stack, a tuple
containing three None values is returned. Otherwise, the values returned are
(type, value, traceback). Their meaning is: type gets the exception type of
the exception being handled (a class object); value gets the exception
parameter (its associated value or the second argument to raise, which is
always a class instance if the exception type is a class object); traceback
gets a traceback object (see the Reference Manual) which encapsulates the
call stack at the point where the exception originally occurred.

    If exc_clear() is called, this function will return three None values
until either another exception is raised in the current thread or the
execution stack returns to a frame where another exception is being handled.

    Warning: Assigning the traceback return value to a local variable in a
function that is handling an exception will cause a circular reference. This
will prevent anything referenced by a local variable in the same function or
by the traceback from being garbage collected. Since most functions don't
need access to the traceback, the best solution is to use something like
exctype, value = sys.exc_info()[:2] to extract only the exception type and
value. If you do need the traceback, make sure to delete it after use (best
done with a try ... finally statement) or to call exc_info() in a function
that does not itself handle an exception. Note: Beginning with Python 2.2,
such cycles are automatically reclaimed when garbage collection is enabled
and they become unreachable, but it remains more efficient to avoid creating
cycles. 


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