From 88b5b6ddf60c38f54d0c656d883b0aed6cb03987 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ned Deily Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 19:24:05 -0700 Subject: 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). --- Lib/test/support/__init__.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py index d26281a..40aab96 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() -- cgit v0.12