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authorNed Deily <nad@acm.org>2014-05-03 19:24:05 -0700
committerNed Deily <nad@acm.org>2014-05-03 19:24:05 -0700
commit88b5b6ddf60c38f54d0c656d883b0aed6cb03987 (patch)
tree84d323d12ebca74727416133accdf2002565a349
parent3d678e3b12b376dbb1f65fdff11b0c14bcc93bc6 (diff)
downloadcpython-git-88b5b6ddf60c38f54d0c656d883b0aed6cb03987.tar.gz
Issue #18604: Skip the Tk instantiation test on OS X because it can
cause GUI tests to segfault in Cocoa Tk when run under regrtest -j (multiple threads running subprocesses).
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/support/__init__.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index d26281a2fb..40aab96c30 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -434,7 +434,9 @@ def _is_gui_available():
reason = "cannot run without OS X gui process"
# check on every platform whether tkinter can actually do anything
- if not reason:
+ # but skip the test on OS X because it can cause segfaults in Cocoa Tk
+ # when running regrtest with the -j option (multiple threads/subprocesses)
+ if (not reason) and (sys.platform != 'darwin'):
try:
from tkinter import Tk
root = Tk()