The CPP logic on the log dir seems to have been wrong since last year. Chang...

chrome/common/chrome_paths.cc

 // Copyright (c) 2006-2008 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #include "chrome/common/chrome_paths.h"
 
 #include "base/command_line.h"
 #include "base/file_path.h"
 #include "base/file_util.h"
 #include "base/logging.h"
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   return false;
 #endif
 }
 
 bool PathProvider(int key, FilePath* result) {
   // Some keys are just aliases...
   switch (key) {
     case chrome::DIR_APP:
       return PathService::Get(base::DIR_MODULE, result);
     case chrome::DIR_LOGS:
-#ifndef NDEBUG
+#ifdef NDEBUG
+      // Release builds write to the data dir
       return PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, result);
 #else
+      // Debug builds write next to the binary (in the build tree)
       return PathService::Get(base::DIR_EXE, result);
 #endif
     case chrome::FILE_RESOURCE_MODULE:
       return PathService::Get(base::FILE_MODULE, result);
   }
 
   // Assume that we will not need to create the directory if it does not exist.
   // This flag can be set to true for the cases where we want to create it.
   bool create_dir = false;
 
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       break;
     case chrome::DIR_TEST_TOOLS:
       if (!PathService::Get(base::DIR_SOURCE_ROOT, &cur))
         return false;
       cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("chrome"));
       cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("tools"));
       cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("test"));
       if (!file_util::PathExists(cur))  // we don't want to create this
         return false;
       break;
-    case chrome::FILE_PYTHON_RUNTIME:
-      if (!PathService::Get(base::DIR_SOURCE_ROOT, &cur))
-        return false;
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("third_party"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("python_24"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("python.exe"));
-      if (!file_util::PathExists(cur))  // we don't want to create this
-        return false;
-      break;
-    case chrome::FILE_TEST_SERVER:
-      if (!PathService::Get(base::DIR_SOURCE_ROOT, &cur))
-        return false;
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("net"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("tools"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("test"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("testserver"));
-      cur = cur.Append(FILE_PATH_LITERAL("testserver.py"));
-      if (!file_util::PathExists(cur))  // we don't want to create this
-        return false;
-      break;
     default:
       return false;
   }
 
   if (create_dir && !file_util::PathExists(cur) &&
       !file_util::CreateDirectory(cur))
     return false;
 
   *result = cur;
   return true;
 }
 
 // This cannot be done as a static initializer sadly since Visual Studio will
 // eliminate this object file if there is no direct entry point into it.
 void RegisterPathProvider() {
   PathService::RegisterProvider(PathProvider, PATH_START, PATH_END);
 }
 
 }  // namespace chrome