[Python-3000] Solaris support in 3.0? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Sep 5 13:19:12 CEST 2007

This is a combination question-and-status-report email. The question would be, what does the "somewhat" tag mean on Solaris support in the release notes for 3.0a1, and does someone have a list of things that don't work, or does that just mean it hasn't been tested?

Not sure what "somewhat" means, but you can take a look at the build failures in the Solaris buildbot - this is what is "officially" known not to work.

As always with Solaris, there are several dimensions to be considered:

(not all combinations exist, but plenty)

If anyone wants more data on any of these particular failures, let me know, otherwise I'm going to start working through the ones that fail in 3.0 that don't fail in 2.6. All of the md5 failures are because of the lack of SSL, so I'm not sure that the tests should be 'failing' in this configuration.

I think that's a serious issue to consider. As so much code now depends on OpenSSL, setup.py should try harder to find it. E.g. on the build slave, it can be found in /usr/sfw - not sure whether that is normal on a Solaris 10 installation, and not sure whether there is a Sun-provided OpenSSL on Solaris 8.

Notice that the tests don't 'fail', they are skipped. There are also failing test cases, something that is more worrisome than a skipped test case.

Regards, Martin

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