From aa8430ad391d93391988451f43ecedd76ca4dd77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Dunn <>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 19:25:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix error with symlinks when building the wheel on Linux

---
 demo/version.py |  2 +-
 setup.py        | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/demo/version.py b/demo/version.py
index 9a0b3fe0..94f38a29 100644
--- a/demo/version.py
+++ b/demo/version.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # This file was generated by wxPython's wscript.
 
-VERSION_STRING = '4.1.0a1'
+VERSION_STRING = '4.1.0'
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 6b78355a..955c1a1a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 
 import sys, os
 import glob
+import stat
 
 from setuptools                     import setup, find_packages
 from distutils.command.build        import build as orig_build
@@ -308,6 +309,16 @@ orig_copy_tree = distutils.dir_util.copy_tree
 distutils.dir_util.copy_tree = wx_copy_tree
 
 
+# Monkey-patch make_writeable too. Sometimes the link is copied before the
+# target, and the original make_writable will fail on a link to a missing
+# target.
+def wx_make_writable(target):
+    if not os.path.islink(target):
+        os.chmod(target, os.stat(target).st_mode | stat.S_IWRITE)
+
+import setuptools.command.build_py
+setuptools.command.build_py.make_writable = wx_make_writable
+
 
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