From f3eb7d3454685d8dfe45dcba148b6f115b77431b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Senthil Kumaran <senthil@uthcode.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:00:19 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] skip the extractall test on platforms where os.symlink is not
 available.

---
 Lib/test/test_tarfile.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
index ef3bf8b4110..f78f9ce03f5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_tarfile.py
@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ class WriteTest(WriteTestBase):
         finally:
             os.chdir(cwd)
 
+    @unittest.skipUnless(hasattr(os, 'symlink'), "needs os.symlink")
     def test_extractall_symlinks(self):
         # Test if extractall works properly when tarfile contains symlinks
         tempdir = os.path.join(TEMPDIR, "testsymlinks")