Re: Can we reproduce this?

On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 08:02:53PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > > When I try 'make test' during building python2.3a1 with gcc2.95.3 in
> > > > Solaris8, it stops at 'test_signal' - it stays there until the process
> > > > is killed via kill -9.
> > > 
> > > This is a known problem, which occurs in the farm as well. We have as
> > > yet no good leads.
> > 
> > I just ran test_socket a bunch of times on our sun without problems.
> > I believe Martin von Loewis and Andrew Koenig also use a solaris box
> > fairly regularly.  (Hopefully Martin is reading this list and can
> > confirm.)
> > 
> > So the problem may be limited to the snake farm and a few other boxes.
> 
> Most likely it's dependent on a particular combination of software
> versions.  It's worth trying to find out which versions the snake-farm
> and inyeol's box have in common.

I built 2.3a1 with gcc 2.95 (gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)) and
Solaris8 linker. I didn't use GNU binutil or glibc.

For comparison, I built another one with Solaris compiler (WorkShop
Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0) instead of gcc, but the symptom is the
same.

Inyeol...