[Pythonmac-SIG] python 2.3.4 framework installation: test_macostools failed

[Bob Ippolito]

On Sep 25, 2004, at 4:59 AM, Sven Hilmahr wrote:

> Hello, I'm new on this list. I tried to do a Python 2.3.4 framework 
> installation on my Mac OS
> X 10.3.5. I configured as described in the ReadMe:
>
> ./configure --enable-framework
>
> But on make test, one test failed:
>
> test test_macostools failed -- Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File 
> "/Users/sven/Downloads/Python-2.3.4/Lib/test/test_macostools.py",
> line 78, in test_mkalias_relative
>     macostools.mkalias(test_support.TESTFN, TESTFN2, sys.prefix)
>   File "/Users/sven/Downloads/Python-2.3.4/Lib/plat-mac/macostools.py",
> line 39, in mkalias
>     relativefsr = File.FSRef(relative)
> Error: (-43, 'File not found')

It doesn't sound like a big deal, and I wouldn't worry too much about 
it at the moment (macostools is rarely used by most people on OS X).  
The test is probably wrong in some way, Jack would know.

-bob