Issue #12660: Backport 84bbb8d2d237

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
index f157eaeba046f4e34acd4c4ac647f9b3d0c16d2e..fe98530c7140f0d4f37a2b0d0ec1932379b379d0 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import os
 import re
 import subprocess
 import sys
+import sysconfig
 import unittest
 import sysconfig
 
@@ -77,6 +78,9 @@ def run_gdb(*args, **env_vars):
         ).communicate()
     return out, err
 
+if not sysconfig.is_python_build():
+    raise unittest.SkipTest("test_gdb only works on source builds at the moment.")
+
 # Verify that "gdb" was built with the embedded python support enabled:
 gdbpy_version, _ = run_gdb("--eval-command=python import sys; print(sys.version_info)")
 if not gdbpy_version: