From c12dedd6d7934ca1698a66f848cd057bbf10bbee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: David Shea <dshea@redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 10:02:27 -0500

Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Canonicalize bin_dir when looking for data_dir.

This way calling mypy as /bin/mypy will look for the data dir starting

in /usr instead of /.

---

 mypy/build.py | 4 ++++

 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mypy/build.py b/mypy/build.py

index 2c54225..76c3326 100644

--- a/mypy/build.py

+++ b/mypy/build.py

@@ -210,6 +210,10 @@ def default_data_dir(bin_dir: str) -> str:

     if not bin_dir:

         # Default to directory containing this file's parent.

         return os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

+

+    # Canonicalize the path in case bin_dir is a symlink

+    bin_dir = os.path.realpath(bin_dir)

+

     base = os.path.basename(bin_dir)

     dir = os.path.dirname(bin_dir)

     if (sys.platform == 'win32' and base.lower() == 'scripts'

-- 

2.6.4