On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Bill Janssen <jans...@parc.com> wrote:
> My Leopard and Tiger PPC buildbots are momentarily green! But I'm
> looking into why I'm skipping some tests. My buildbots are up-to-date
> OS-wise and very vanilla, with the latest applicable Xcode.
>
> 4 skips unexpected on darwin:
> test_gdb test_ioctl test_readline test_ttk_guionly
>
> Three of these (gdb, readline, ttk_guionly) are just bad predictions of
> which tests should skip on Darwin, I think -- gdb is only version 6, so
> that test won't run, readline doesn't get built, ttk doesn't work
> without Tcl/Tk 8.5.
So it looks like you gould get readline and ttk to run and pass by
separately downloading and installing readline (I've done this many
times before) and Tcl/Tk (no idea but I suppose it should work).
> But the the skip of test_ioctl baffles me.
>
> "test_ioctl skipped -- Unable to open /dev/tty"
>
> But when I log in via ssh and try it with the system python:
>
> ~ wjanssen$ python
> python
> Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 17 2009, 20:37:34)
> [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> open("/dev/tty")
> open("/dev/tty")
> <open file '/dev/tty', mode 'r' at 0x597b8>
>>>>
>
> Seems to work fine. So this I don't understand. Any ideas, anyone?
Maybe the buildbot runs the tests as a tty-less daemon process. If you
ask me it's pretty crazy to have a test that requires a tty. But there
you have it -- and it's the same in Python 3. (But then again, who
knows, I might have written that test. ;-)
--
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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