On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:

On 2009-09-01, Jim Fulton wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:

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- Is this something I really should fix in my own setup?

- Is there a known fix that can be applied to the test setup?

Yes. Use a clean Python built from source with nothing in site-packages.

Ok, that helped partially.  But then I got an error like:

 distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch:  now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure

<shrug> Mac OS X weirdity.

Waargh, that was in python2.4-checking code.  So I tried running the buildout with python2.4 instead of the 2.5 I've been using: success.

I run the tests on Mac OS X with Python 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6.

I don't know if the python24/python25 difference is known/intended, but in any case: I can run the tests now.

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To build the buildout checkout, use dev.py, which is a special bootstrap used when working on buildout itself.

I haven't seen that dev.py documented.  Would a "development instructions for buildout itself" be good to add to the documentation?

I wouldn't make it part of the standard documentation. Perhaps a DEVELOPER.txt in the root directory. Jim -- Jim Fulton

On 2009-09-01, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

On 1 Sep, 2009, at 16:21, Jim Fulton wrote:

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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:

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distutils.errors.DistutilsPlatformError: $MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET mismatch: now "10.3" but "10.5" during configure

<shrug> Mac OS X weirdity.

What kind of Python installation are you using? System python, binary installer from Python.org, ... Which version of Python are you using? Do you have MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET set in your shell environment?

Set in my shell? No. And this last attempt where I got the 10.3 != 10.5 error was with a freshly compiled 2.5.4 source release from python.org. Plain configure/make/make install (with a --prefix= option). Plain as plain can be. If you google it, there are quite a lot of reports on this. Well, I've got the tests running with python2.4 at least. Hm. I *could* do another build WITH such an environment variable set... Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - reinout@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets"

On 2009-09-01, Sebastien Douche wrote:

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 09:42, Reinout van Rees wrote:

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He was on linux, I'm on osx.  So it is not specifically os-dependent.

No problem here: http://misc.buildbot.securactive.org/waterfall

That's exactly the problem: most people don't have a problem. So it took me quite some time to be actually able to work on buildbot itself as all I heard was "the tests run for me". I've added two of the most helpful hints to a new DEVERLOPERS.txt to make sure they're documented now. Reinout -- Reinout van Rees - reinout@vanrees.org - http://reinout.vanrees.org Software developer at http://www.thehealthagency.com "Military engineers build missiles. Civil engineers build targets"