[GN] Locate prebuilt binaries correctly.

Use the system shell to see if we can find a 'gn' binary on $PATH. This solves the error wherein subprocess.call fails ungracefully if the binary doesn't exist.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@355645 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

diff --git a/utils/gn/gn.py b/utils/gn/gn.py
index f523e6443ea78d4e1fc07240f1f7ff4d9988fe51..73f2c80fe9dbe5719cade00914974ce8e61f5262 100755 (executable)
--- a/utils/gn/gn.py
+++ b/utils/gn/gn.py
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ def main():
     # Find real gn executable.
     gn = 'gn'
     if subprocess.call([gn, '--version'], stdout=open(os.devnull, 'w'),
-                                          stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) != 0:
+                                          stderr=subprocess.STDOUT,
+                                          shell=True) != 0:
         # Not on path. See if get.py downloaded a prebuilt binary and run that
         # if it's there, or suggest to run get.py if it isn't.
         platform = get_platform()