sys._base_executable is now always defined on all platforms, and can be overridden through configuration.
Also adds test.support.PythonSymlink to encapsulate platform-specific logic for symlinking sys.executable
module binaries, with a platform triple of just "darwin", resulting in
file names like:
_ssl.cpython-35m-darwin.so
rather than just _ssl.so as previously.
Instead of attempting to encode differences in CPU architecture and OS X
deployment targets in the file name as is done on other platforms,
these continue to be managed by the use of Apple multi-architecture
("fat") files, by the system dynamic loader, and by logic in higher-levels
like sysconfig.get_platform() and pip.
tailoring for universal builds by factoring out common OS X-specific
customizations from sysconfig, distutils.sysconfig, distutils.util,
and distutils.unixccompiler into a new module _osx_support that can
eventually also be used by packaging.
We need a discussion to define what should be customized how; this new
config file is premature. It was added to serve the needs of the
resources system in install_data / packaging.database, so it can be
removed alongside packaging for 3.3.
I tested this manually; it would be great to have buildbots using
installed Pythons, including Pythons configured with different prefix
and exec-prefix.
Reported by Zsolt Cserna.
Without this patch python will fail to start properly when the environment
variable MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET is set on MacOSX and has a value that is
not compatible with the value during Python's build. This is caused by code
in sysconfig that was only meant to be used in disutils.
In order to create symlinks on Windows, SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege
is an account privilege that is required to be held by the user. Not only
must the privilege be enabled for the account, the activated privileges for
the currently running application must be adjusted to enable the requested
privilege.
Rather than exposing an additional function to be called prior to the user's
first os.symlink call, we handle the AdjustTokenPrivileges Windows API call
internally and only expose os.symlink when the privilege escalation was
successful.
Due to the change of only exposing os.symlink when it's available, we can
go back to the original test skipping methods of checking via `hasattr`.
Added Windows support for os.symlink when run on Windows 6.0 or greater,
aka Vista. Previous Windows versions will raise NotImplementedError
when trying to symlink.
Includes numerous test updates and additions to test_os, including
a symlink_support module because of the fact that privilege escalation
is required in order to run the tests to ensure that the user is able
to create symlinks. By default, accounts do not have the required
privilege, so the escalation code will have to be exposed later (or
documented on how to do so). I'll be following up with that work next.
Note that the tests use ctypes, which was agreed on during the PyCon
language summit.
Steve Dower
Steve Dower
Zachary Ware
Xavier de Gaye
Berker Peksag
Serhiy Storchaka
Ned Deily
doko@ubuntu.com
Antoine Pitrou
Barry Warsaw
Jesus Cea
Philip Jenvey
Richard Oudkerk
Larry Hastings
Éric Araujo
Vinay Sajip
Benjamin Peterson
Brett Cannon
Victor Stinner
Tarek Ziade
Ronald Oussoren
Brian Curtin
Ezio Melotti