On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 8:30 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Charles R Harris <
> charlesr.har...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The failed tests require pyrex, fortran, and swig. The refcount error
>> comes and goes, probably the test isn't very good.  Ralf, is there any
>> reason to keep the various extension building tests? They are very old.
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> There are f2py tests that are useful - if they fail then building anything
> else with f2py fails as well. However those are all in f2py/tests/ IRRC,
> not in distutils/tests.
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>> I don't know what the recommendation on using nosetests is,
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> Don't use it (it definitely gives test errors due to not having the
> knownfailure plugin), use either runtests.py or numpy.test().
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>> but probably it is finding too many tests.
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> It's doing its job here in finding these though. It looks like these tests
> need either fixing (the extensions aren't built) or removing. I'll have a
> look tonight.
>

Should be fixed by https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/6955

`nosetests numpy` will still give test errors (6 right now), but only due
to not understanding KnownFailureException.

Ralf
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