build: allow build with system python 3

When the system python is python 3, configure now creates a directory with a symlink called 'python' to python2, uses it when it calls run_gyp, and puts it in config.mk so that it propagates to everything that make launches PR-URL: #16058 Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> Reviewed-By: Bryan English <bryan@bryanenglish.com> Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

Author: forivall

configure

@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ exec python "$0" "$@"
 del _
 
 import sys
+from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 if sys.version_info[0] != 2 or sys.version_info[1] not in (6, 7):
  sys.stderr.write('Please use either Python 2.6 or 2.7')
 
- from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
  python2 = which('python2') or which('python2.6') or which('python2.7')
 
  if python2:
@@ -1350,6 +1350,36 @@ def configure_inspector(o):
  options.without_ssl)
  o['variables']['v8_enable_inspector'] = 0 if disable_inspector else 1
 
+
+def get_bin_override():
+ # If the system python is not the python we are running (which should be
+ # python 2), then create a directory with a symlink called `python` to our
+ # sys.executable. This directory will be prefixed to the PATH, so that
+ # other tools that shell out to `python` will use the appropriate python
+
+ if os.path.realpath(which('python')) == os.path.realpath(sys.executable):
+ return
+
+ bin_override = os.path.abspath('out/tools/bin')
+ try:
+ os.makedirs(bin_override)
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise e
+
+ python_link = os.path.join(bin_override, 'python')
+ try:
+ os.unlink(python_link)
+ except OSError as e:
+ if e.errno != errno.ENOENT: raise e
+ os.symlink(sys.executable, python_link)
+
+ # We need to set the environment right now so that when gyp (in run_gyp)
+ # shells out, it finds the right python (specifically at
+ # https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/d82e107/deps/v8/gypfiles/toolchain.gypi#L43)
+ os.environ['PATH'] = bin_override + ':' + os.environ['PATH']
+
+ return bin_override
+
 output = {
  'variables': {},
  'include_dirs': [],
@@ -1428,6 +1458,10 @@ if options.prefix:
 
 config = '\n'.join(map('='.join, config.iteritems())) + '\n'
 
+bin_override = get_bin_override()
+if bin_override:
+ config = 'export PATH:=' + bin_override + ':$(PATH)\n' + config
+
 write('config.mk', do_not_edit + config)
 
 gyp_args = ['--no-parallel']