Hi All,
I was very happy, back in March, when I discovered that the test failure that was occurring when building with xlc (and I could not find a cause for) was 'magically' resolved - and likewise, frustrated when just as magically builds suddenly went into a 'segmentation fault' during builds.
This was the reason I had switched off my bot - no need for consistent 'red' flags, if a cause could not be found.
Happily, again 'magically', whatever was causing this disappeared - and a second error (re: unicopde and test_io) got fixed in master - and master runs 'green' on master. The 3.9 bot (both xlc and gcc) still run red - waiting for the backport of the test_io issue 40401 (see request from Serley to Victor): https://bugs.python.org/issue41401#msg374409
Would be very nice to have all running 'green' again.
The 'open' issue with xlc (v13 and v16 in any case) and _decimal - there is someone looking at that (i.e., I know who to ask for more help) can be worked on now - now the seg fault is gone.
Michael
p.s. - I hope you all agree this is not a suitable message for python-dev. imho - it is more about what is holding up a green status with a bot than an issue in Python (core).