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-rw-r--r--Lib/distutils/tests/support.py7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/tests/support.py b/Lib/distutils/tests/support.py
index 44fcd6b..d77bbee 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/support.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/support.py
@@ -175,10 +175,9 @@ def _get_xxmodule_path():
def fixup_build_ext(cmd):
"""Function needed to make build_ext tests pass.
- When Python was build with --enable-shared on Unix, -L. is not good
- enough to find the libpython<blah>.so. This is because regrtest runs
- it under a tempdir, not in the top level where the .so lives. By the
- time we've gotten here, Python's already been chdir'd to the tempdir.
+ When Python was built with --enable-shared on Unix, -L. is not enough to
+ find libpython<blah>.so, because regrtest runs in a tempdir, not in the
+ source directory where the .so lives.
When Python was built with in debug mode on Windows, build_ext commands
need their debug attribute set, and it is not done automatically for