From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:03:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a note about how to successfully complete the tests on MacOSX.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c5b69972109470ef493c5f7b3c94f8d4fd7f32b2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add a note about how to successfully complete the tests on MacOSX.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7051e352b14a..15171d8d1058 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ Tests
   attempt to allocate any memory, but merely check that the overflow
   detection code works correctly (as was intended).
 
+- The MacOSX (both 10.1 and 10.2) tests will crash with SEGV in
+  test_re and test_sre due to the small default stack size.  Do
+  "ulimit -s 2048" before "make test" to avoid the failure.  Note that
+  this is a built-in bash command so if you're using a different
+  shell, the command may be different too.
+
 Windows
 
 - Fixed the "File version" field in the DLL.  This has apparently been