bpo-29185: Fix `test_distutils` failures on Android (GH-4438)
* Run gzip with separate command line options (Android understands '-f9' as the name of a file).
* Creation of a hard link is controled by SELinux on Android.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py
index 02fa1e2..14ba4ca 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
# now create another tarball using `tar`
tarball2 = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'archive2.tar.gz')
tar_cmd = ['tar', '-cf', 'archive2.tar', 'dist']
- gzip_cmd = ['gzip', '-f9', 'archive2.tar']
+ gzip_cmd = ['gzip', '-f', '-9', 'archive2.tar']
old_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(tmpdir)
try:
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_file_util.py
index 03040af..a4e2d02 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_file_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_file_util.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
from distutils import log
from distutils.tests import support
from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
-from test.support import run_unittest
+from test.support import run_unittest, unlink
class FileUtilTestCase(support.TempdirManager, unittest.TestCase):
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@
def test_copy_file_hard_link(self):
with open(self.source, 'w') as f:
f.write('some content')
+ # Check first that copy_file() will not fall back on copying the file
+ # instead of creating the hard link.
+ try:
+ os.link(self.source, self.target)
+ except OSError as e:
+ self.skipTest('os.link: %s' % e)
+ else:
+ unlink(self.target)
st = os.stat(self.source)
copy_file(self.source, self.target, link='hard')
st2 = os.stat(self.source)