is it possible to set

execution_mode="venv"

and

venv_site_packages_copies=True

in a test environment? Context here: I’m trying to test AWS CDK code which depends on an installed

node

binary

@chilly-holiday-77415 that should be the default already for the PEX venvs Pants runs pytest with. Do you have any custom

pants.toml

config? For example, if this is set to True, that would foil you here: https://www.pantsbuild.org/v2.17/docs/reference-pex#venv_use_symlinks

Hey John - thanks for getting back to me, I didn’t want to tag you to avoid sniping you specifically with more jsii/node stuff. I’m getting the same “node not found” error from the previous thread:

------------------------------- Captured stderr --------------------------------
b'No version is set for command node\n'
b'Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at \n'
b'nodejs 18.6.0\n'
b'nodejs 19.4.0\n'
b'nodejs 16.19.0\n'

which lead me to try and follow the same path - the cdk pex itself is working (in that it runs without complaint). Here’s my full pants.toml…

b'Consider adding one of the following versions in your config file at \n'

Note the ghost "" config file. I know ~nothing about node here but you do. Does that prompt you?

💡 this is going to be an

asdf

issue I think, I also know ~nothing about node except I installed it with that and it seems like that phrase is generated by asdf from googling it 🙂 thanks John!