Backport fix done by Benedikt Morbach on pylint for python3 install on win32 platforms / cross compilation. Closes #180836

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b1614dc..eabe38a 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ ChangeLog for logilab.common
    * modutils: don't propagate IOError when package's __init__.py file doesn't
      exist (#174606)
 
+   * fix some cases of failing python3 install on windows platform / cross
+     compilation (#180836)
+
 2013-07-26  --  0.60.0
     * configuration: rename option_name method into option_attrname (#140667)
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9ac5255..764651d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -139,11 +139,12 @@ class MyBuildPy(build_py):
                 shutil.copytree(directory, dest)
                 if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
                     # process manually python file in include_dirs (test data)
-                    from subprocess import check_call
+                    from distutils.util import run_2to3
                     # brackets are NOT optional here for py3k compat
                     print('running 2to3 on', dest)
-                    # Needs `shell=True` to run on Windows.
-                    check_call(['2to3', '-wn', dest], shell=sys.platform=='win32')
+                    run_2to3([dest])
+
+
 
 
 def install(**kwargs):