Fix a test failure due to a stupid str type check in Py2 distutils.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/runtests.py b/runtests.py
index 562192198..f98c17bf8 100755
--- a/runtests.py
+++ b/runtests.py
@@ -1125,6 +1125,8 @@ class CythonCompileTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
                     extension = newext or extension
             if self.language == 'cpp':
                 extension.language = 'c++'
+            if IS_PY2:
+                workdir = str(workdir)  # work around type check in distutils that disallows unicode strings
             build_extension.extensions = [extension]
             build_extension.build_temp = workdir
             build_extension.build_lib  = workdir