From cea42a4df40109d3b7f10e9ffc82c6d16acf626d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Clauss <cclauss@me.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:31:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Revert stderr.decode("utf-8") that was landed in #1937

#1937
---
 gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py b/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py
index 42390f23eb..309959ef75 100644
--- a/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py
+++ b/gyp/pylib/gyp/input.py
@@ -911,7 +911,9 @@ def ExpandVariables(input, phase, variables, build_file):
           p_stdout, p_stderr = p.communicate('')
 
           if p.wait() != 0 or p_stderr:
-            sys.stderr.write(p_stderr.decode('utf-8'))
+            sys.stderr.write(p_stderr)
+            # Simulate check_call behavior, since check_call only exists
+            # in python 2.5 and later.
             raise GypError("Call to '%s' returned exit status %d while in %s." %
                            (contents, p.returncode, build_file))
           replacement = p_stdout.rstrip()