[Pythonmac-SIG] Test failure (crash?) with Py-2.6.5rc1 on OS 10.6.2

[Ned Deily]

In article <1267560256.4b8d6f403bb13 at astrosun2.astro.cornell.edu>,
 Tom Loredo <loredo at astro.cornell.edu> wrote:
> I've just built Py-2.6.5rc1 on Snow Leopard, configured to build
> an intel-only universal framework, as follows:
> 
> export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.6
> time ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/tmp --enable-framework 
> --enable-universalsdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk --with-
> universal-archs=intel
> 
> "make" runs fine, but "make test" fails with what appears to
> be a crash:
> 
> test_syntax
> test_sys
> test_tarfile
> test_tcl
> 2010-03-02 14:39:15.473 python.exe[37210:60b] The application with bundle ID 
> (null) is running setugid(), which is not 
> allowed.
> make: *** [test] Error 1
> 
> I don't know what to make of this; I'm not even sure what test is
> causing the problem (is the test name printed before the test executes,
> or after it runs?).  Perhaps it's a Tcl issue, but I don't have any
> such issues with Py-2.6.4 with an identical configuration.

Did you try running it after a make install and while not running as 
root?  Trying to run processes that require a window manager connection 
is picky.  I think you'll find that Tkinter and IDLE actually run OK 
once installed.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org