make test fails on NetBSD 1.6

[Donn Cave]

Quoth martin at v.loewis.de (Martin v. =?iso-8859-15?q?L=F6wis?=):
| carlggb at terc.edu (Carl Alexander) writes:
|> I'm new to Python.  Building 2.2.2 on NetBSD 1.6 seems to go fine, but I get
|> this from make test.  It's not quite clear to me how I should go about asking
|> "someone to teach regrtest.py about which tests are expected to get skipped 
|> on netbsd1".
|
| If you consider yourself a NetBSD expert, you should determine which
| of these tests should have worked: e.g. should it be expected that
| NetBSD supports the en_US locale (in which case test_locale should
| have worked); should it be expected that the system supports fork with
| threads (in which test_fork1 should be executed), and so on.
|
| If you have a list of tests that you would expect to be executed, find
| out why the tests that got skipped did so; for the rest, submit a
| patch to sf.net/projects/python to make an entry in
| Lib/test/regrtest.py to list the tests that are expected to be skipped.
|
| You should be concerned about the failure of test_threading; it means
| that your thread library doesn't work as Python expects it to work. In
| that case, it is best to either fix the problem, or compile Python
| with --without-threads.

Actually NetBSD is still getting around to supporting threads.
In the meantime, Python shouldn't expect the thread library to
be present.  When I run regrtest.py, I get "test_threading skipped --
No module named thread" (and of course several other tests skipped
for the same reason.)  But I see that's with 2.2.1.  Who knows,
anyway, one should not expect to be able to use the threading module
on NetBSD through 1.6.

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