[New-bugs-announce] [issue43659] AIX: test_curses crashes buildbot

[Michael Felt]

New submission from Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl>:

Since issue42789 the AIX bot's have crashed - to the extent that the bot's did not even return results.

Part of this has been resolved, for now, by using:

$ export TERM=unknown
$ buildbot start buildarea

However, the test still crash because AIX default libcurses.a does not include support for update_lines_cols().

This patch should allow test_curses.py to pass in the buildbot.

When run from command-line as:

$ TERM=unknown ./python Lib/test/test_curses.py
.ss......ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 71 tests in 0.121s

OK (skipped=64)
aixtools at cpython2:[/home/aixtools/py3a-10.0]

(When TERM is defined - a core dump still occurs - that will be a new issue and a new PR).

----------
components: Tests
messages: 389716
nosy: Michael.Felt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: AIX: test_curses crashes buildbot
versions: Python 3.10

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<https://bugs.python.org/issue43659>
_______________________________________