STINNER Victor added the comment:
According to Michael Felt, the bug is specific to XLC compiler, but the POWER6
AIX buildbot worker switch to GCC.
Michael Felt: Maybe Python documentation or build system should somewhere
discourage the usage of the XLC on AIX because of this bug. But that's
Michael Felt added the comment:
Please let me be much more specific.
This specific bot failure is from when I ran the bot using XLC as a compiler.
Because I could not solve it on my own, and did not get any hints in time (see
issue35828) Since my work schedule intensified I switched the bot
Michael Felt added the comment:
I believe (or hope) this is related to issue35828.
This is, as far as I can tell, a compiler issue.
It appears "always" in the bot situation (not building as root) when using
xlc-v11, but not when using gcc-4.7.4.
So, when the test failure "disappears" on the
New submission from STINNER Victor :
POWER6 AIX 3.x:
https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/161/builds/1050
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ERROR: test_rapid_restart
(test.test_multiprocessing_forkserver.WithManagerTestManagerRestart)
