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-rw-r--r--pkg_resources/__init__.py13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 2b2442f5..cddb21fb 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -2228,7 +2228,18 @@ register_namespace_handler(object, null_ns_handler)
def normalize_path(filename):
"""Normalize a file/dir name for comparison purposes"""
- return os.path.normcase(os.path.normpath(os.path.realpath(filename)))
+ return os.path.normcase(os.path.realpath(os.path.normpath(_cygwin_patch(filename))))
+
+
+def _cygwin_patch(filename): # pragma: nocover
+ """
+ Contrary to POSIX 2008, on Cygwin, getcwd (3) contains
+ symlink components. Using
+ os.path.abspath() works around this limitation. A fix in os.getcwd()
+ would probably better, in Cygwin even more so, except
+ that this seems to be by design...
+ """
+ return os.path.abspath(filename) if sys.platform == 'cygwin' else filename
def _normalize_cached(filename, _cache={}):