[Python-Dev] please take a look at buildbot result [was: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)] (original) (raw)

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Fri Apr 30 02:27:44 CEST 2010

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

R. David Murray <rdmurray bitdance.com> writes: > > On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:28:47 -0700, Bill Janssen wrote: > > 8 skips unexpected on darwin: > > testaepack testapplesingle testgdb testmacos testmacostools > > testreadline testscriptpackages testttkguionly > > > > Why is the skip of "testreadline" unexpected on darwin? The readline > > on Darwin isn't what Python wants. > > I think someone fixed readline to work with Darwin's readline, at > least in theory.

The machine is likely lacking the readline development headers. In any case, please don't focus on the skipped tests. What's important is the failed tests. Bill, Michael, it would be nice if you could investigate a bit more on these failures.

Well, test_grp test is failing because it assumes that group IDs are unique, which is not guaranteed by getgrent(). And apparently not true at PARC.

test_posix fails on some group-related thing, too: the use of initgroups(), which is supposed to fail, succeeds.

test_pwd fails because the fake uid chosen for one test is a real UID for a PARC user.

So these are really problems with the test being based on an insufficiently general model of the real world.

Bill

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