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

[David Bolen]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not seeing the test_distutils failure you report on my own
> 10.5 machine, for some reason.

I don't think it's OSX specific.  My FreeBSD slaves (both 6.4 and 7.2)
have been getting the same error.

It seems related to the sticky bit on /tmp and the fact that the
account running the build slave is in the wheel(0) group, so
directories/files created beneath /tmp get a group of 0 rather than
the user's gid.  That affects the temporary files in the distutils
test, which is expecting a default of os.getgid().

-- David