Python plays a pretty big role in Sage, when it is built, the Python self-tests
are not run. Neither are they run if you build Sage with SAGE_CHECK=yes.
If you want to see if Python builds ok on your system, try this package
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/revised-patches/python-2.6.4.p9.spkg
It already has positive review at:
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/9295
You will need to rebuild python after typing:
$ export SAGE_CHECK=yes
So far, on 3 systems where this has been tested, there are 5 failures on each,
though the 5 failures differ between systems - with one exception
(test_distutils) which seems to fail on all systems.
I intend investigating the failures I get, and perhaps reporting them to the
python bug database
http://bugs.python.org/
Dave
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