Message 336747 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

while building python3.7 from source code on debian9.8 stretch.

hardware : intel corei5 3337U 4 Gib -- physical ram//4 Gib -- swap space

following the instructions given in the README.rst file: user@host $ ./configure --enable-optimizations #---works fine : no issues

user@host $ make #---works fine : noissues

user@host $ make test produces this FAIL: test_locale_flag (test.test_re.ReTests)

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/apoos-maximus/packages/Python-3.7.2/Lib/test/test_re.py", line 1540, in test_locale_flag self.assertTrue(pat.match(bletter)) AssertionError: None is not true

Ran 123 tests in 1.048s

FAILED (failures=1, skipped=2) test test_re failed 1 test failed again: test_re

== Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE ==

384 tests OK.

1 test failed: test_re

29 tests skipped: test_bz2 test_ctypes test_curses test_dbm_gnu test_dbm_ndbm test_devpoll test_gdb test_gzip test_idle test_kqueue test_lzma test_msilib test_ossaudiodev test_readline test_smtpnet test_sqlite test_ssl test_startfile test_tcl test_tix test_tk test_ttk_guionly test_ttk_textonly test_turtle test_winconsoleio test_winreg test_winsound test_zipfile64 test_zlib

1 re-run test: test_re

2 tests run no tests: test_dtrace test_future4

Total duration: 4 min 44 sec Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE Makefile:1074: recipe for target 'test' failed make: *** [test] Error 2

#on rerunning the same test user@host $ make test TESTOPTS="-v test_re"

FAIL: test_locale_flag (test.test_re.ReTests)

Ran 123 tests in 0.750s

FAILED (failures=1, skipped=2) test test_re failed 1 test failed again: test_re

== Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE ==

1 test failed: test_re

1 re-run test: test_re

Total duration: 1 sec 646 ms Tests result: FAILURE then FAILURE Makefile:1074: recipe for target 'test' failed make: *** [test] Error 2

this is how the bug could be reproduced

PS: do have a look at the traceback ::it makes no sense to me, it might to you !