- Issue #8447: Make distutils.sysconfig follow symlinks in the path to
the interpreter executable. This fixes a failure of test_httpservers
on OS X.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
index bb53315..46d23ec 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/sysconfig.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
# Path to the base directory of the project. On Windows the binary may
# live in project/PCBuild9. If we're dealing with an x64 Windows build,
# it'll live in project/PCbuild/amd64.
-project_base = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.executable))
+project_base = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable))
if os.name == "nt" and "pcbuild" in project_base[-8:].lower():
project_base = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(project_base, os.path.pardir))
# PC/VS7.1
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
if os.name == "posix":
if python_build:
- buildir = os.path.dirname(sys.executable)
+ buildir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable))
if plat_specific:
# python.h is located in the buildir
inc_dir = buildir
@@ -222,7 +222,8 @@
def get_makefile_filename():
"""Return full pathname of installed Makefile from the Python build."""
if python_build:
- return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(sys.executable), "Makefile")
+ return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable)),
+ "Makefile")
lib_dir = get_python_lib(plat_specific=1, standard_lib=1)
return os.path.join(lib_dir, "config", "Makefile")
@@ -459,7 +460,7 @@
g['SO'] = '.pyd'
g['EXE'] = ".exe"
g['VERSION'] = get_python_version().replace(".", "")
- g['BINDIR'] = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(sys.executable))
+ g['BINDIR'] = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(sys.executable))
global _config_vars
_config_vars = g