From 24df68493a690a2153dd79430ff9800505d81917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 04:32:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Refine note about strftime test failure (it's fixed in Linux glibc 6). --- README | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 45a05c4f5d..222f551566 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -473,9 +473,10 @@ produces some output. You can generally ignore the messages about skipped tests due to an optional feature that can't be imported (if you want to test those modules, edit Modules/Setup to configure them). If a messages is printed about a failed test or a traceback or core -dump is produced, something's wrong. On some systems, test_strftime -fails due to a non-standard implementation of strftime() in the C -library. This can be ignored (or you can complain to your vendor). +dump is produced, something's wrong. On some Linux systems (those +that are not yet using glibc 6), test_strftime fails due to a +non-standard-compliant implementation of strftime() in the C library. +Please ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6. IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report, *don't* include the output of "make test". It is useless. Run the -- 2.50.1