[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset a0ccc54e6dffacf9e7c06f2a3e9056d2d35d21eb by Victor Stinner in branch '3.6': Synchronize libregrtest from master to 3.6 (#2244) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/a0ccc54e6dffacf9e7c06f2a3e9056d2d35d21eb --

[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

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[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

STINNER Victor added the comment: I don't think that the test_pydoc failure is very important. I'm not interested to fix it right now. The main blocker issue was regrtest and it's now fixed in the master branch. I don't recall any user complaining about issues with read-only source tree, so I

[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

STINNER Victor added the comment: New changeset f7e07840d725f2ebb469129cb5e6574ce61725ef by Victor Stinner in branch 'master': bpo-30284: Fix regrtest for out of tree build (#1481) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f7e07840d725f2ebb469129cb5e6574ce61725ef -- __

[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

STINNER Victor added the comment: test_synopsis_sourceless() should create a script, build it and test the generated .pyc file. So we control how the .pyc file is created. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

STINNER Victor added the comment: Ah, there is one and only one failing test: == ERROR: test_synopsis_sourceless (test.test_pydoc.PydocDocTest) -- Traceback (mo

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[issue30284] Build CPython out of tree with a read-only source tree

New submission from STINNER Victor: I tried to build CPython out of the source tree with a customized read-only source tree (chmod -R -w). I got an error when running tests: tests want to write into a build/ directory... in the source tree. Attached patch fixes this issue. -- componen