From: Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2019 14:30:36 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: bpo-38234: Fix test_embed pathconfig tests (GH-16390)
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=00508a7407d7d300b487532e2271534b20e378a7;p=python

bpo-38234: Fix test_embed pathconfig tests (GH-16390)

bpo-38234: On macOS and FreeBSD, the temporary directory can be
symbolic link. For example, /tmp can be a symbolic link to /var/tmp.
Call realpath() to resolve all symbolic links.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_embed.py b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
index e7a10b6def..ed90fc0cbe 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_embed.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_embed.py
@@ -1042,6 +1042,11 @@ class InitConfigTests(EmbeddingTestsMixin, unittest.TestCase):
     def tmpdir_with_python(self):
         # Temporary directory with a copy of the Python program
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
+            # bpo-38234: On macOS and FreeBSD, the temporary directory
+            # can be symbolic link. For example, /tmp can be a symbolic link
+            # to /var/tmp. Call realpath() to resolve all symbolic links.
+            tmpdir = os.path.realpath(tmpdir)
+
             if MS_WINDOWS:
                 # Copy pythonXY.dll (or pythonXY_d.dll)
                 ver = sys.version_info