[Python-Dev] Massive test_sqlite failure on Mac OSX ... sometimes

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Oct 21, 2006, at 8:03 PM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

> Followup #2...
>
> Yesterday I whittled my problems with test_sqlite on my OSX g5 to
> test_ctypes and test_sqlite:
>
>     ./python.exe Lib/test/regrtest.py -l -f tests
>     test_ctypes
>     test_sqlite
>     test test_sqlite failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode  
> for details
>     1 test OK.
>     1 test failed:
>         test_sqlite
>
> Today I refined things further.  I renamed all the test_*.py files in
> Lib/ctypes/test/ until all I was left with was test_find.py.  It  
> fails if
> that's the only ctypes test script run:
>
>     $ ls -l *.py
>     -rw-------   1 buildbot  buildbot  6870 Oct 20 06:30 __init__.py
>     -rw-------   1 buildbot  buildbot   624 Oct 20 06:30 runtests.py
>     -rw-------   1 buildbot  buildbot  3463 Oct 21 12:52 test_find.py
>     montanaro:~/pybot/trunk.montanaro-g5/build/Lib/ctypes/test  
> buildbot$ cd -
>     /Library/Buildbot/pybot/trunk.montanaro-g5/build
>     montanaro:~/pybot/trunk.montanaro-g5/build buildbot$ ./ 
> python.exe Lib/test/regrtest.py -l -f tests
>     test_ctypes
>     test_sqlite
>     test test_sqlite failed -- errors occurred; run in verbose mode  
> for details
>     1 test OK.
>     1 test failed:
>         test_sqlite
>
> test_find.py contains checks for three OpenGL libraries on darwin:  
> gl, glu
> and glut.  If I comment out all those tests, test_sqlite succeeds.   
> If any
> of them are enabled, test_sqlite fails.

According to a comment in (IIRC) the pyOpenGL sources GLUT on OSX  
does a chdir() during initialization, that could be the problem here.

Ronald

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