Use shell wrappers to spawn python & python-config instead of symlinks to fix magic applied by Python 3.4+ to symlinks.
Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555752 --- eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass index a292179..c1c5ea6 100644 --- a/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass +++ b/eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass @@ -855,14 +855,25 @@ python_wrapper_setup() { fi # Python interpreter - ln -s "${PYTHON}" "${workdir}"/bin/python || die - ln -s python "${workdir}"/bin/python${pyver} || die + # note: we don't use symlinks because python likes to do some + # symlink reading magic that breaks stuff + # https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555752 + cat > "${workdir}/bin/python" <<-_EOF_ + #!/bin/sh + exec "${PYTHON}" "\${@}" + _EOF_ + cp "${workdir}/bin/python" "${workdir}/bin/python${pyver}" || die + chmod +x "${workdir}/bin/python" "${workdir}/bin/python${pyver}" || die local nonsupp=() # CPython-specific if [[ ${EPYTHON} == python* ]]; then - ln -s "${PYTHON}-config" "${workdir}"/bin/python-config || die + cat > "${workdir}/bin/python-config" <<-_EOF_ + #!/bin/sh + exec "${PYTHON}-config" "\${@}" + _EOF_ + chmod +x "${workdir}/bin/python-config" || die # Python 2.6+. ln -s "${PYTHON/python/2to3-}" "${workdir}"/bin/2to3 || die -- 2.4.6
