Test failures on AIX 5.1 for 2.3.4

[Neal Norwitz]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message news:<mailman.891.1091042158.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> "Jeff Smith" <google at spiceaid.com> wrote in message
> news:3d4251a8.0407281003.5546de45 at posting.google.com...
> > I built Python 2.3.4 on AIX 5.1 with the AIX C compiler cc_r and had
> > three test failures during the "make test" phase:
> >     test_coercion
> >     test_mmap
> >     test_pty
> 
> I believe coercion is universally applicable and should pass on every
> machine.  I am not sure about the other two.

Actually, it probably is not a problem.  If you run the regression
tests with the -v option, I expect you will see that the differences
are that cc_r is using signed zeroes.  

I think there was a bug report.  It doesn't seem to be open (at least
I can't find it), so it was probably closed as a Wont Fix.  Basically
I was too lazy to fix it when I had access to AIX and I no longer have
access.

> > Do I need to worry about these?  Should I submit a bug report?

test_mmap is likely a known problem:  http://python.org/sf/678250
that is probably just a bad test.

test_pty is notoriously bad:  http://python.org/sf/713169
probably also a test problem.

It would be nice to clean up the tests and have them pass, but we need
people to spend the effort.  It would also be nice to verify the
results on a couple of machines.  Unfortunately, there hasn't been
much support in the past.

Neal