[Python-Dev] uuid test suite failing (original) (raw)

Matt Fleming mattjfleming at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 27 23:21:52 CEST 2006


On 27/07/06, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote: > IIRC at least some versions of HP-UX do not support the -a flag for > ifconfig, I'll check this tomorrow. > > Ronald >

td192> /usr/sbin/ifconfig usage: ifconfig interface [ af [ address [ dest_addr ] ] [ up ] [ down ][ netmask mask ] ] [ metric n ] [ arp | -arp ] [ plumb | unplumb ] td192> /usr/sbin/ifconfig -a ifconfig: no such interface td192> uname -a HP-UX td192 B.11.11 U 9000/800 1839940656 unlimited-user license

Also fixed this test on my NetBSD machine by using 'ifconfig -a' and checking for 'address:' in the output. But as Ronald said, not all platforms support the '-a' flag. Not sure if this will fix the OpenBSD buildbot, I don't have access to an OpenBSD machine.

Matt

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