> On 06/24/10 09:29 AM, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > On 06/24/10 01:26 AM, Alex Ghitza wrote:
> >> I got the following:
> >>
> >> 1 test failed:
> >> test_distutils
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Alex
> >
> > You are doing better than most. But *everyone* gets that failure. I
> > don't know how critical that is in Sage, but either the test is broken
> > on that part of Python is broken in Sage.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Sorry, that did not make a lot of sense.
>
>
> First, everyone who has tested that package in Sage sees that failure.
>
> Secondly, either
>
> * The distutils test is broken
> * Distutils in Python is broken.
> * One of the modifications done to Python in Sage has broken disutils.
>
> A few failures are observed on OS X, Solaris and OpenSolaris. Those
> failures have always included test_distutils.
>
> If I recall correctly, there are some odd comments on some tickets about
> workaround being applied because distutils is broken, though I might be
> confusing it with another aspect of Python.
>
>
Hi Dave,
>From the current python ebuild in gentoo:
# Skip all tests that fail during emerge but pass without emerge:
# (See bug #67970)
local skip_tests="distutils httpservers minidom pyexpat sax tcl"
The bug in question hasn't been touched since 2006 so it is a long standing
issue that no one has looked in a long time.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67970
The strange thing is going manually in the concerned folder and running
make test from there works. Could you check that it is the case in sage too?
One suggestion was some failures were due the environment variable
PYTHON_DONTCOMPILE set to 1 during the build but I am not sure that
would apply in sage.
Francois
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