[issue8577] test_distutils fails if srcdir != builddir

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

This won't work because in the build dir, srcdir is set to ".." in the Makefile located in the buildir, and the tests are run into a subdir : /build/test_python_xxx, so you can't rely on a relative path.


For this to work we would need an absolute path for "srcdir" in the Makefile.

We need to find a way to locate the srcdir with an aboslute path.

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