Under Mac OSX 10.3.4 with latest security update. Power Mac G4 733MHz Trying to install Zope 2.7.0 with Python 2.3.4. I first used fink to install 2.3.4 but Zope could find module 'os' to import. I then followed the instructions at: http://zope.org/Members/jens/docs/Document.2003-12-27.2431/ document_view to install Python with the default configure. Unlike under fink, doing this allowed me to run 'make test'. It too noted import problems for 'os' and 'site'. test_tempfile 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Volumes/Spielen/Python-2.Lib/test/tf_inherit_check.py", line 6, in ? import os ImportError: No module named os test test_tempfile failed -- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Volumes/Spielen/Python-2.Lib/test/test_tempfile.py", line 307, in test_noinherit self.failIf(retval > 0, "child process reports failure") File "/Volumes/Spielen/Python-2.Lib/unittest.py", line 274, in failIf if expr: raise self.failureException, msg AssertionError: child process reports failure test_atexit 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "@test.py", line 1, in ? import atexit ImportError: No module named atexit test test_atexit failed -- '' == "handler2 (7,) {'kw': 'abc'}\nhandler2 () {}\nhandler1\n" test_audioop ---------- test_poll skipped -- select.poll not defined -- skipping test_poll test_popen 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback test_popen2 ------------------- 229 tests OK. 2 tests failed: test_atexit test_tempfile 24 tests skipped: test_al test_bsddb3 test_cd test_cl test_curses test_dl test_email_codecs test_gl test_imgfile test_largefile test_linuxaudiodev test_locale test_nis test_normalization test_ossaudiodev test_pep277 test_poll test_socket_ssl test_socketserver test_sunaudiodev test_timeout test_urllibnet test_winreg test_winsound Those skips are all expected on darwin. make: *** [test] Error 1 deksmacintosh:3->
Logged In: YES user_id=357491 Do you get these failures if you compile Python from scratch instead of using Fink? How about running the tests directly? I suspect the test_atexit failure is a Fink-specific issue and the test_tempfile failure was just a timing quirk since it has a threaded and that can make it sensitive to timing.
Logged In: YES user_id=318754 Do you get these failures if you compile Python from scratch instead of using Fink? How about running the tests directly? See above, the second time I installed without fink and ran the tests directly. The errors are from 'make test' done without fink.
Logged In: YES user_id=45365 My guess is that something in your environment is messing things up. Various of the tests that give the "import site failed" message use subprocesses. What I tend to do to debug issues like this is create a new dummy user (I tend to use the short name "luser" and the long name "Bill Gates":-), unpack a fresh distribution under that account and try building.
