[Python-Dev] Last-minute request: please backport bpo-33329 fix to 3.4 and 3.5 (original) (raw)

Joni Orponen j.orponen at 4teamwork.ch
Mon Mar 4 05:29:43 EST 2019

On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 7:08 AM Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

This bug in bpo-33329: https://bugs.python.org/issue33329 was fixed for 3.6+, but it also affects 3.4 and 3.5. The bug is that with newer versions of glibc--which I'm pretty sure has shipped on all major Linux distros by now--the test suite may send signals that are invalid somehow. As a result the test suite... blocks forever? I think? Anyway the observed resulting behavior is that there are three regression tests in each branch that seemingly never complete. I started the 3.4 regression test suite nine hours ago and it still claims to be running--and the 3.5 test suite isn't far behind. Technically, no, it's not a security bug. But I simply can't ship 3.4 and 3.5 in this sorry state.

This is also potentially affecting PGO builds of 2.7 on Debian Buster with GCC. Somehow building with Clang is fine.

Does the configure time choice of compiler make a difference here for 3.4 and 3.5?

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