[Python-Dev] Build failure in test_cmd_line on OSX-x86

[Stephen Hansen]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:02:59 -0700
> Stephen Hansen <me+python at ixokai.io <me%2Bpython at ixokai.io>> wrote:
> >
> > And long story short, it gets to 201 and runs test_cmd_line in the same
> > order as the buildbot did, and it succeeds too, and I curse the gods of
> the
> > netherworld, and am stumped with how to proceed. Two separate buildbot
> runs
> > and this same failure happened, yet for me, no. Or I'm doing something
> > differently then the buildbot is, and I can't see what.
>
> The buildbot user probably has different locale settings. I can
> simulate the failure with:
>

I'd find that very surprising: the buildslave is running as the same user I
am running the test under, and the LANG is en_US.UTF-8 -- the default.
Granted, the slave's running under launchd, and so is launching twisted with
the tac directly -- but I can't see any part of that process which would
cause the default LANG to change.

Interestingly enough, I can't reproduce the failure with:

  Top-2:build pythonbuildbot$ PYTHONFSENCODING=latin1 ./python.exe -m
test.regrtest -uall test_cmd_line.py
  [1/1] test_cmd_line
  1 test OK.
  [84024 refs]

(and just to test--)

  Top-2:build pythonbuildbot$ PYTHONFSENCODING="utf-8" ./python.exe -m
test.regrtest -uall test_cmd_line.py
  [1/1] test_cmd_line
  1 test OK.
  [84024 refs]

But I don't think that environment variable does anything on the Mac; I'm
pretty sure the fs encoding is set as utf-8 and mandated as such in the OS.


> You should therefore see what the locale settings of the buildbot are
> (the LANG and LC_* environment variables). Of course, the test is also
> buggy so you should open an issue on the tracker.
>

I'm just not sure what to say about it or in what way its being buggy yet,
so can't open an issue :)


> (and the fact that the test doesn't print the actual error message of
> the spawned interpreter is unhelpful)
>

Agreed.

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