don't remove symlinks from temporary directory path - should help with some standard OSX setups

_pytest/__init__.py

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 #
-__version__ = '2.1.4.dev1'
+__version__ = '2.1.4.dev2'

_pytest/tmpdir.py

@@ -64,5 +64,5 @@ def pytest_funcarg__tmpdir(request):
     name = request._pyfuncitem.name
     name = py.std.re.sub("[\W]", "_", name)
     x = request.config._tmpdirhandler.mktemp(name, numbered=True)
-    return x.realpath()
+    return x
 

setup.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def main():
         name='pytest',
         description='py.test: simple powerful testing with Python',
         long_description = long_description,
-        version='2.1.4.dev1',
+        version='2.1.4.dev2',
         url='http://pytest.org',
         license='MIT license',
         platforms=['unix', 'linux', 'osx', 'cygwin', 'win32'],

testing/test_tmpdir.py

@@ -75,3 +75,16 @@ def test_basetemp(testdir):
     result = testdir.runpytest(p, '--basetemp=%s' % mytemp)
     assert result.ret == 0
     assert mytemp.join('hello').check()
+
+@pytest.mark.skipif("not hasattr(os, 'symlink')")
+def test_tmpdir_keeps_symlinks(testdir):
+    realtemp = testdir.tmpdir.mkdir("myrealtemp")
+    linktemp = testdir.tmpdir.join("symlinktemp")
+    linktemp.mksymlinkto(realtemp)
+    p = testdir.makepyfile("""
+        def test_1(tmpdir):
+            import os
+            assert os.path.realpath(str(tmpdir)) != str(tmpdir)
+    """)
+    result = testdir.runpytest("-s", p, '--basetemp=%s/bt' % linktemp)
+    assert not result.ret