From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 04:28:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #18604: Skip the Tk instantiation test on OS X because it can
X-Git-Tag: v2.7.8~37^2~87
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=47e4b0bedb63fdcff29deb657930043c96235983;p=python

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).
---

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_support.py b/Lib/test/test_support.py
index 31b311915f..b8149527bd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_support.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_support.py
@@ -326,7 +326,9 @@ 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()