[issue28276] test_loading.py - false positive result for "def test_find" when find_library() is not functional or the (shared) library does not exist
Michael Felt
report at bugs.python.org
Tue Sep 27 15:17:34 EDT 2016
Michael Felt added the comment:
Actually, what may be needed are more "@skip" blocks - as ctypes has always been platform dependent.
OR - have a counter or boolean that starts as zero or false and increase each time find_library() returns a value - and the test fails if the counter is still zero, or boolean is still false.
Further, perhaps a separate test_load() that is platform specific - with the correct - read expected - result from find_library(). I say expected because python has always been testing for libc.so.6 while I see in cloud-init that that are calls hard-coded to CDLL("libc.so.7") - but maybe that is something specific for Canonical aka ubuntu.
However, it seems that expecting libc.so.6 to ALWAYS be present is not safe.
FYI:
michael at x071:[/data/prj/python/cloud-init]grep CDLL cloud-init-0*/cloudinit/*.py
cloud-init-0.7.5/cloudinit/util.py: libc = ctypes.CDLL('/lib/libc.so.7')
cloud-init-0.7.8/cloudinit/util.py: libc = ctypes.CDLL('/lib/libc.so.7')
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