On 21 Aug 2014, at 01:08, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> This is a test of lib/distutils.sysconfig, a near but not exact copy of 
> lib/sysconfig. I don't know why we have both, but this one will not affect 
> you unless you use distutils to compile something.

I've been staring at this for a couple of hours now and I've somehow completely 
overlooked the fact that one is _sysconfig_ and the other is 
_distutils.sysconfig_. The problem makes more sense now.

> which is a repeat with the addition of -01

So the likely cause is that the distutils module has for some reason been built 
with different CFLAGS than cpython proper.

> Or you can ignore it.

It's a little tricky with mock, as failures during the test phase are fatal. 
There's probably a config option to suppress that though.

> I am guessing that CentOS does not guarantee that Red Hat source compiled on 
> CentOS will run tests without failure.

It's possible... I've got a full RHEL license somewhere here, so I might see if 
I can reproduce it there.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Regards,

Adam Bishop

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