[Python-Dev] OS X buildbots: why am I skipping these tests?

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 01, 2010, at 07:52 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

>Note that it works this way on Linux as well. On Kubuntu (for example)
>you need another half dozen or so additional *-dev packages installed
>to avoid unexpected test skips.
>
>Cheers,
>Nick.
>
>P.S. For anyone curious, I posted the list of extra packages you need
>here:
>http://boredomandlaziness.blogspot.com/2010/01/kubuntu-dev-packages-to-build-python.html

As an aside, I wonder if it would make sense to create an Ubuntu/Debian
package that essentially just depended on all those -dev packages.  That way
you could install this python-uber-dev package and get everything you needed
to build a sumo Python.

Hmm, /me goes to hack on his PPA.

-Barry
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