# HG changeset patch
# User Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
# Date 1433182838 -7200
# Node ID 34d5fd98bc84d202dd6692906f21509bb5abefaf
# Parent  feea0af4a450e0ff0045f1b7c0a5f430c97520f9
Issue #204: second try

diff --git a/testing/cffi1/test_zdist.py b/testing/cffi1/test_zdist.py
--- a/testing/cffi1/test_zdist.py
+++ b/testing/cffi1/test_zdist.py
@@ -29,13 +29,17 @@
         if hasattr(self, 'saved_cwd'):
             os.chdir(self.saved_cwd)
 
-    def run(self, args):
+    def run(self, args, cwd=None):
         env = os.environ.copy()
-        newpath = self.rootdir
-        if 'PYTHONPATH' in env:
-            newpath += os.pathsep + env['PYTHONPATH']
-        env['PYTHONPATH'] = newpath
-        subprocess.check_call([self.executable] + args, env=env)
+        # a horrible hack to prevent distutils from finding ~/.pydistutils.cfg
+        # (there is the --no-user-cfg option, but not in Python 2.6...)
+        env['HOME'] = '/this/path/does/not/exist'
+        if cwd is None:
+            newpath = self.rootdir
+            if 'PYTHONPATH' in env:
+                newpath += os.pathsep + env['PYTHONPATH']
+            env['PYTHONPATH'] = newpath
+        subprocess.check_call([self.executable] + args, cwd=cwd, env=env)
 
     def _prepare_setuptools(self):
         if hasattr(TestDist, '_setuptools_ready'):
@@ -44,8 +48,7 @@
             import setuptools
         except ImportError:
             py.test.skip("setuptools not found")
-        subprocess.check_call([self.executable, 'setup.py', 'egg_info'],
-                              cwd=self.rootdir)
+        self.run(['setup.py', 'egg_info'], cwd=self.rootdir)
         TestDist._setuptools_ready = True
 
     def check_produced_files(self, content, curdir=None):