Thomas> I have the impression that the test is broken. Should I try to Thomas> fix it (difficult, without access to neither Mac or Solaris), or Thomas> should it simply be deleted ;-) I have access to both Mac OS X and Solaris 8. I routinely build from CVS on my Mac Laptop (my default Python interpreter there is built from CVS). I can set up a CVS tree on a Solaris 8 machine and test anything you need. Skip