build: allow build with system python 3

When the system python is python 3, configure now creates a directory
with a symlink called 'python' to python2, uses it when it calls
run_gyp, and puts it in config.mk so that it propagates to everything
that make launches

Author: forivall

configure

@@ -1350,6 +1350,36 @@ def configure_inspector(o):
                        options.without_ssl)
   o['variables']['v8_enable_inspector'] = 0 if disable_inspector else 1
 
+bin_override = None
+
+def setup_bin_overrides():
+  global bin_override
+  # If the system python is not the python we are running (which should be
+  # python 2), then create a directory with a symlink called `python` to our
+  # sys.executable. This directory will be prefixed to the PATH, so that
+  # other tools that shell out to `python` will use the appropriate python
+
+  from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
+  if os.path.realpath(which('python')) == os.path.realpath(sys.executable):
+    return
+
+  bin_override = os.path.abspath('out/tools/bin')
+  try:
+    os.makedirs(bin_override)
+  except os.error as e:
+    if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
+      raise e
+
+  python_link = os.path.join(bin_override, 'python')
+  try:
+    os.unlink(python_link)
+  except os.error as e:
+    if e.errno != errno.ENOENT:
+      raise e
+  os.symlink(sys.executable, python_link)
+
+  os.environ['PATH'] = bin_override + ':' + os.environ['PATH']
+
 output = {
   'variables': {},
   'include_dirs': [],
@@ -1428,6 +1458,10 @@ if options.prefix:
 
 config = '\n'.join(map('='.join, config.iteritems())) + '\n'
 
+setup_bin_overrides()
+if bin_override:
+  config = 'export PATH:=' + bin_override + ':${PATH}\n' + config
+
 write('config.mk', do_not_edit + config)
 
 gyp_args = ['--no-parallel']