Re: Failed to build python-SunOS-5.7-sun4m-sandra

Michael Hudson <[email protected]> 17 Jul 2002 10:09:10 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.snake-farm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anders Qvist <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:31:05AM +0100, Michael Hudson wrote:
> > <[email protected]> writes:
> > 
> > > Build test failed.
> > 
> > Can we not run test_sunaudiodev?
> 
> I'll add a config opt for make options per target, though I think the
> ./configure script should try to detect as much of this as possible.

In this case, it's probably a bug in the test.  But I've largely given
up on getting the Xaudiodev tests to work.  On my linux box I get this
(most of the time):

test test_linuxaudiodev crashed -- linuxaudiodev.error: (0, 'Error')

> [snip]
> 
> > PS: sh quoting rules make my head hurt.  is there a reason this isn't
> >     written in a more sensible language?
> 
> It's written in the language that would be likely to cover the most
> platforms.

Fair enough.

Cheers,
M.

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