From ff5c6dcd1ba832fdc2cda097facf789211f53a58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Achenbach <machenbach@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 14:08:28 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] tools: properly convert .gypi in install.py

It was breaking during install when .gypi strings had quotes in
them. e.g.: 'foo': 'bar="baz"'
---
 tools/install.py | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/install.py b/tools/install.py
index 2aeed773bb08b3..ce9ceeee1dd578 100755
--- a/tools/install.py
+++ b/tools/install.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
+import ast
 import errno
-import json
 import os
 import re
 import shutil
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ def abspath(*args):
 
 def load_config():
   s = open('config.gypi').read()
-  s = re.sub(r'#.*?\n', '', s) # strip comments
-  s = re.sub(r'\'', '"', s) # convert quotes
-  return json.loads(s)
+  return ast.literal_eval(s)
 
 def try_unlink(path):
   try: