From: Ned Deily <nad@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 02:24:05 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Issue #18604: Skip the Tk instantiation test on OS X because it can
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88b5b6ddf60c38f54d0c656d883b0aed6cb03987;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/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()