New submission from Michael Felt <aixto...@felt.demon.nl>:
By default AIX builds 32-bit applications - and the combined .data, .bss and .stack areas share one memory segment of 256 Mbyte. This can be modified by either specifying a larger value for maxdata during linking (e.g., with LDFLAGS=-bmaxdata:0x40000000) or using the program ldedit (e.g., ldedit -b maxdata:0x40000000). The subtest test_shutil.test_unpack_archive_xztar fails with the default. The patch here looks at the MAXDATA value of the executable XCOFF headers and skips the test when AIX is 32-bit and MAXDATA < 0x20000000. This helps the result of AIX bots to be more accurate - as this so-called failure is not an issue with python itself. ---------- components: Tests messages: 333370 nosy: Michael.Felt priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: On AIX, test_unpack_archive_xztar fails with default MAXDATA settings type: enhancement versions: Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35704> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
