[New-bugs-announce] [issue34986] python finds test modules from the wrong directory during PGO build

[Kal Sze]

New submission from Kal Sze <swordangel at gmail.com>:

OS: Ubuntu Desktop 18.04.1 x86-64
Python 3.7.0

When trying to build Python 3.7 from source, with the `--enable-shared --enable-optimizations --with-lto` configure options, python needs to run the test suite in order to generate PGO data. However, it turns out that it would find test modules from the wrong directory, if there is already another version of Python 3 installed system-wide (Ubuntu 18.04 comes with Python 3.6 pre-installed).

I found out because Ubuntu's automatic crash reporter caught a core dump during `python -m tests.regrtest` and I could see that python found the tests.regrtest module at `/usr/lib/python3.6/test/regrtest.py`.

In the end, the build is reported as "successful", I guess it's because the Makefile expects it the crash anyway. In any case, it still seems wrong because it means the wrong test suite is run.

Ubuntu's crash report in raw format is attached, for anybody who knows how to read it (it's in plain text anyway)

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components: Build
files: _usr_lib_python3.6_test_regrtest.py.1000.crash
messages: 327726
nosy: Kal Sze2
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: python finds test modules from the wrong directory during PGO build
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47868/_usr_lib_python3.6_test_regrtest.py.1000.crash

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