On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 at 10:19AM -0800, Volker Braun wrote: > I consider it a bug that Python's testsuite fails on many systems even > though the resulting python install is perfectly usable for our purposes. > The Python spkg-check should be changed to not call the whole python > testsuite blindly if it is this finicky.
Fortunately, upon digging in the makefile, I see that it's easy to avoid the few tests that we know won't work: in spkg-check, just change make test to make EXTRATESTOPTS="-x test_tcl -x test_dbm -x test_gdbm -x test_bsddb" test Now we just need to know which tests to exclude. On Linux, is it always those four that fail? On OS X and Solaris, which tests always fail? Dan -- --- Dan Drake ----- http://mathsci.kaist.ac.kr/~drake -------
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