[Pythonmac-SIG] Python 2.4, test_long failing?

[Bob Ippolito]

On May 16, 2005, at 3:58 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>
> On May 16, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>
>> I'm building Python 2.4.1 from source (--enable-framework) and
>> noticed that test_long is failing. Is anyone having this problem?
>>
>> $ sw_vers
>> ProductName:    Mac OS X
>> ProductVersion: 10.4
>> BuildVersion:   8A428
>>
>> $ make test
>> ...
>> test_long
>> test test_long failed -- 9007199254740991.0 9007199254740991L 0 -1
>> test_long_future
>> ...
>>
>
> This is a bug in 8A428.  I discovered this before the release (but
> apparently not soon enough).  It's an obvious bug in the
> implementation of modf, which is one of the things that I would
> expect to be fixed in Mac OS X 10.4.1 (you might want to check for
> seeds if you have a key).

Let me rephrase that -- check Software Update <http:// 
docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301517>.

This has been fixed, though the 10.4.1 notes don't mention the modf  
specifically.  The seed notes did.

-bob