On 6 February 2011 07:50, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, February 6, 2011 7:19:29 AM UTC, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: >> >> On 5 February 2011 08:17, Mate Kosor <mate....@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I don't know why the checks don't work for package python, but if I >> > could make a suggestion maybe it would be better that the check ships >> > that package because now the check is nonfunctional. >> >> IMHO that would be a bad idea. It's better to be aware of the issue >> than just to cover up the failures.The actual tests that fail differ >> from system to system. > > I haven't investigated this, but I tought the failures in the python > testsuite come from python's optional modules that are compiled only if > dependencies are available. For example, pythons ssl library is only > compiled if openssl headers are found at compile time. The corresponding ssl > module testsuite failing shouldn't stop us, then.
That's not true. If there are not the perquisites to build a particular module, then the tests for that module are skipped. The failures seen are actually on parts of Python that build, but fail the tests. It seems everyone gets a few of these. Dave -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
