[Python-Dev] /trunk test_distutils failing on Mac OS X 10.5

[C. Titus Brown]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 06:43:50PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:36 PM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:28:50PM +0100, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> >> That's not true, see
> >>
> >> http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/builders/x86 osx.5 trunk
> >
> > Ahh! ??Sorry, was searching for 'mac' somewhere in the string.
> >
> > Those tests are also broken but in different areas from mine. ??Again,
> > if people would like shell access, just ask.
> 
> I think that buildbot is running OS X 10.6 (despite its name).  It
> would definitely be useful to have an OS X 10.5 buildbot as well,
> since there are significant differences:  most obviously, the
> default build on 10.6 is an LP64 build.
> 
> I'm not seeing the test_distutils failure you report on my own
> 10.5 machine, for some reason.

Yes, neither is Tarek... I'll see if I can track down why.  I don't
think I installed anything other than the minimum necessary to build
Python, but that's a bit worrisome.

cheers,
--titus
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C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu