On Jan 18, 2:17 pm, Dan Drake <dr...@kaist.edu> wrote: > 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
I've had consistent failures in "test_distutils" (in all versions of Sage I've ever tried this with). David -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
