Issue 26931: Skip the test_distutils tests using a compiler executable

that is not found

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_config_cmd.py b/tests/test_config_cmd.py
index 0c8dbd82..6e566e79 100644
--- a/tests/test_config_cmd.py
+++ b/tests/test_config_cmd.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 import unittest
 import os
 import sys
-from test.support import run_unittest
+from test.support import run_unittest, missing_compiler_executable
 
 from distutils.command.config import dump_file, config
 from distutils.tests import support
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ class ConfigTestCase(support.LoggingSilencer,
 
     @unittest.skipIf(sys.platform == 'win32', "can't test on Windows")
     def test_search_cpp(self):
+        cmd = missing_compiler_executable(['preprocessor'])
+        if cmd is not None:
+            self.skipTest('The %r command is not found' % cmd)
         pkg_dir, dist = self.create_dist()
         cmd = config(dist)