build: add workaround for V8 builds

V8's build toolchain is not compatible with Python 3 and the CI job that tests V8 needs to be run with Python 2. Add a fallback to `find_executable` from `distutils.spawn` to allow the configure script to run in the V8 test job. PR-URL: #38632 Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
nodejs · Jun 11, 2021 · 5df0f35 · 5df0f35
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diff --git a/configure.py b/configure.py
@@ -14,7 +14,12 @@
 import bz2
 import io
 
-from shutil import which
+# Fallback to find_executable from distutils.spawn is a stopgap for
+# supporting V8 builds, which do not yet support Python 3.
+try:
+  from shutil import which
+except ImportError:
+  from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 from distutils.version import StrictVersion
 
 # If not run from node/, cd to node/.