New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>:
Output of test_distutils on a older SuSE Linux system:
FAILED (errors=1, skipped=5)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "../Lib/test/test_distutils.py", line 18, in <module>
test_main()
File "../Lib/test/test_distutils.py", line 13, in test_main
test_support.run_unittest(distutils.tests.test_suite())
File "/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 1038,
in run_unittest
_run_suite(suite)
File "/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/test/test_support.py", line 1021,
in _run_suite
raise TestFailed(err)
test.test_support.TestFailed: Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/distutils/tests/test_archive_util.py",
line 167, in test_compress_deprecated
make_tarball(base_name, 'dist', compress='compress')
File "/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/distutils/archive_util.py", line
116, in make_tarball
spawn(cmd, dry_run=dry_run)
File "/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 34, in
spawn
_spawn_posix(cmd, search_path, dry_run=dry_run)
File "/home/xsupport/rtest/python-trunk/Lib/distutils/spawn.py", line 141, in
_spawn_posix
(cmd[0], exit_status)
DistutilsExecError: command 'compress' failed with exit status 1
This system has a fake 'compress' command that only supports uncompress
functionality:
$ compress --help
Usage: compress OPTION FILE
Dummy script for uncompressing legacy shar files.
with OPTION in:
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
-d uncompress
Use `gzip' for compressing files.
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assignee: tarek
components: Distutils
messages: 105862
nosy: ronaldoussoren, tarek
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Spurious test failure in distutils
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7
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