Failure in test_hashlib.py and test_hmac.py

[Chris Lieb]

On Mar 5, 2:50 am, Paul Rubin <no.em... at nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Chris Lieb <chris.l... at gmail.com> writes:
> > I am building Python 2.6.4 on a shared server and am encountering test
> > failures in test_hashlib.py and test_hmac.py,
>
> You should certainly file a bug report (bugs.python.org).  If you want
> to debug it yourself and include a patch, that's great.  Otherwise, just
> file the report.
>
>     In the case of test_hashlib.py, it segfaulted on the first sha512 test
>     when I didn't have the debugging options enabled.  Only after enabling
>     debugging did I get FAIL's for the sha512 tests.
>
>     Does anyone know what is causing these failures?
>
> Please be precise about the hw and compiler versions.

I have created this as bug 8073 [http://bugs.python.org/issue8073]