bug#42553: python-gevent is broken on i686-linux (tests fail)

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Jakub Kądziołka <kuba@kadziolka.net> writes:
>
>> The package python-gevent doesn't build on i686-linux, the following
>> test failure occurs:
>>
>>   ======================================================================
>>   FAIL: test_unlink (gevent.tests.test__core_stat.TestCoreStat)
>>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>>     File 
>> "/tmp/guix-build-python-gevent-20.6.2.drv-0/gevent-20.6.2/build/lib.linux-i686-3.8/gevent/testing/errorhandler.py",
>>  line 47, in wrapper
>>       return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
>>     File 
>> "/tmp/guix-build-python-gevent-20.6.2.drv-0/gevent-20.6.2/build/lib.linux-i686-3.8/gevent/testing/errorhandler.py",
>>  line 34, in wrapper
>>       return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
>>     File 
>> "/tmp/guix-build-python-gevent-20.6.2.drv-0/gevent-20.6.2/build/lib.linux-i686-3.8/gevent/testing/testcase.py",
>>  line 182, in wrapper
>>       return method(self, *args, **kwargs)
>>     File 
>> "/tmp/guix-build-python-gevent-20.6.2.drv-0/gevent-20.6.2/build/lib.linux-i686-3.8/gevent/tests/test__core_stat.py",
>>  line 114, in test_unlink
>>       self._check_attr('attr', True)
>>     File 
>> "/tmp/guix-build-python-gevent-20.6.2.drv-0/gevent-20.6.2/build/lib.linux-i686-3.8/gevent/tests/test__core_stat.py",
>>  line 66, in _check_attr
>>       self.assertIsNone(x, name)
>>   AssertionError: os.stat_result(st_mode=997, st_ino=0, 
>> st_dev=74395714104328192, st_nlink=30000, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, 
>> st_size=6851593278123409408, st_atime=1595260873, st_mtime=0, st_ctime=-2) 
>> is not None : attr
>>   
>>   ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>   Ran 48 tests in 1.238s
>>
>
> Just a follow-up to mention that this still occurs when building with
> --system=i686-linux, even with the recent python-gevent update to
> 20.9.0.

Finally disabled the test in 692c2ad327.

Closing.

Thanks for the report!

Maxim