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PEP-739 build-details generation is broken when --relative-paths is specified #136264

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Bug description:

With a freshly python built from main (on MacOS in this repro, but also tested on Linux), trying to generating the PEP-739 build-details with the --relative-paths option fails.

$ ./python.exe -E Tools/build/generate-build-details.py /tmp/build-details.json --relative-paths

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/itamaro/work/cpython/Tools/build/generate-build-details.py", line 194, in <module>
    main()
    ~~~~^^
  File "/Users/itamaro/work/cpython/Tools/build/generate-build-details.py", line 186, in main
    make_paths_relative(data, args.config_file_path)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/Users/itamaro/work/cpython/Tools/build/generate-build-details.py", line 157, in make_paths_relative
    new_path = os.path.relpath(current_path, data['base_prefix'])
  File "/Users/itamaro/work/cpython/Lib/posixpath.py", line 519, in relpath
    path = os.fspath(path)
TypeError: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not dict

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch, 3.15, 3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS, Linux

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  3. StanFromIreland commented on Jul 4, 2025

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  4. itamaro commented on Jul 13, 2025

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  5. itamaro commented on Aug 3, 2025

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  11. emmatyping commented on Sep 10, 2025

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    Is there any more work to do here? Looks like the PRs to fix this have been merged and if I run

    ./python -E Tools/build/generate-build-details.py build/lib.linux-x86_64-3.15/build-details.json --relative-paths
    

    it works fine.

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