[Python-Dev] uuid test suite failing

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Jul 27, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:

> Georg Brandl wrote:
>> The UUID test suite, which wasn't run by regrtest.py until now, is
>> now failing on some buildbots (and my machine). This should be fixed
>> before releasing something.
>
> Okay, after fixing the test on my machine (locale issue) it looks like
> some ifconfigs don't like to be called without arguments. "-a"  
> seems to
> be supported everywhere though, so I guess it's reasonable to use that
> flag on every platform. Any objections?

IIRC at least some versions of HP-UX do not support the -a flag for  
ifconfig, I'll check this tomorrow.

Ronald