X-Git-Url: https://git.rapsys.eu/youtubedl/blobdiff_plain/929d540d5979815dd13aa119b6fdb41454907d0c..948e7e72e8c48fac09cc92b37abe001b421fda48:/youtube_dl/update.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/update.py b/youtube_dl/update.py
index 002ea7f..84c9646 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/update.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/update.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import subprocess
 import sys
 from zipimport import zipimporter
 
+from .compat import compat_realpath
 from .utils import encode_compat_str
 
 from .version import __version__
@@ -84,7 +85,9 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
     print_notes(to_screen, versions_info['versions'])
 
     # sys.executable is set to the full pathname of the exe-file for py2exe
-    filename = sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0]
+    # though symlinks are not followed so that we need to do this manually
+    # with help of realpath
+    filename = compat_realpath(sys.executable if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') else sys.argv[0])
 
     if not os.access(filename, os.W_OK):
         to_screen('ERROR: no write permissions on %s' % filename)