From 47e4b0bedb63fdcff29deb657930043c96235983 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ned Deily Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 21:28:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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/test_support.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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() -- 2.50.1