Issue #17896: Move Windows external lib sources from .. to externals.

.gitignore

@@ -80,4 +80,5 @@ tags
 TAGS
 .coverage
 coverage/
+externals/
 htmlcov/

.hgignore

@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ Programs/_freeze_importlib
 Programs/_testembed
 .coverage
 coverage/
+externals/
 htmlcov/
 *.gcda
 *.gcno

Lib/tkinter/_fix.py

@@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ def convert_path(s):
 
 prefix = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix,"tcl")
 if not os.path.exists(prefix):
-    # devdir/../tcltk/lib
-    prefix = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix, os.path.pardir, "tcltk", "lib")
+    # devdir/externals/tcltk/lib
+    prefix = os.path.join(sys.base_prefix, "externals", "tcltk", "lib")
     prefix = os.path.abspath(prefix)
 # if this does not exist, no further search is needed
 if os.path.exists(prefix):

Misc/NEWS

@@ -1385,6 +1385,9 @@ Tools/Demos
 Windows
 -------
 
+- Issue #17896: The Windows build scripts now expect external library sources
+  to be in ``PCbuild\..\externals`` rather than ``PCbuild\..\..``.
+
 - Issue #17717: The Windows build scripts now use a copy of NASM pulled from
   svn.python.org to build OpenSSL.
 

PCbuild/get_externals.bat

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 setlocal
 rem Simple script to fetch source for external libraries
 
-pushd "%~dp0..\.."
+if not exist "%~dp0..\externals" mkdir "%~dp0..\externals"
+pushd "%~dp0..\externals"
 
 if "%SVNROOT%"=="" set SVNROOT=http://svn.python.org/projects/external/
 

PCbuild/pyproject.props

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <PyDllName>python35$(PyDebugExt)</PyDllName>
     <PythonExe>$(OutDir)python$(PyDebugExt).exe</PythonExe>
     <KillPythonExe>$(OutDir)kill_python$(PyDebugExt).exe</KillPythonExe>
-    <externalsDir>..\..</externalsDir>
+    <externalsDir>..\externals</externalsDir>
     <sqlite3Dir>$(externalsDir)\sqlite-3.8.3.1</sqlite3Dir>
     <bz2Dir>$(externalsDir)\bzip2-1.0.6</bz2Dir>
     <lzmaDir>$(externalsDir)\xz-5.0.5</lzmaDir>

PCbuild/readme.txt

@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ painless as possible, called "get_externals.bat" and located in this
 directory.  This script extracts all the external sub-projects from
     http://svn.python.org/projects/external
 via Subversion (so you'll need svn.exe on your PATH) and places them
-in ..\.. (relative to this directory).
+in ..\externals (relative to this directory).
 
 It is also possible to download sources from each project's homepage,
 though you may have to change folder names or pass the names to MSBuild

Tools/buildbot/test-amd64.bat

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 setlocal
 rem The following line should be removed before #20035 is closed
-set TCL_LIBRARY=%~dp0..\..\..\tcltk64\lib\tcl8.6
+set TCL_LIBRARY=%~dp0..\..\externals\tcltk64\lib\tcl8.6
 
 call "%~dp0..\..\PCbuild\rt.bat" -d -q -x64 -uall -rwW -n --timeout=3600 %*

Tools/buildbot/test.bat

@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 setlocal
 rem The following line should be removed before #20035 is closed
-set TCL_LIBRARY=%~dp0..\..\..\tcltk\lib\tcl8.6
+set TCL_LIBRARY=%~dp0..\..\externals\tcltk\lib\tcl8.6
 
 call "%~dp0..\..\PCbuild\rt.bat" -d -q -uall -rwW -n --timeout=3600 %*