From bug 599961 comment #2: > The fail in talos will be a regression from the talos change in bug 598507. The > buildbot logs have > *error: arch takes no arguments > Probably should farm that out to another bug, and possibly just change the > check to |platform.mac_ver()[0][:4] == '10.5'|. arch on Tiger is just a reporting tool for architecture type, rather than a launcher like on *Leopard.

So, only run the arch command on leopard?

talos-rev2-tiger10:~ mozqa$ python Python 2.4.4 (#1, Oct 18 2006, 10:34:39) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5341)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform >>> platform.mac_ver()[0][:4] == '10.5' False talos-r3-leopard-010:~ cltbld$ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jun 17 2009, 20:37:34) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform >>> platform.mac_ver()[0][:4] == '10.5' True talos-r3-snow-010:~ cltbld$ python Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Jul 7 2009, 23:51:24) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import platform >>> platform.mac_ver()[0][:4] == '10.5' False Which is correct - we don't use Tiger for anything more modern than 1.9.1 or 1.9.2, so they aren't affected by the change to the m-c universal build.

Comment on attachment 479151 [details] [diff] [review] Only use arch on Leopard This will need to land in both cvs and hg talos.

Comment on attachment 479151 [details] [diff] [review] Only use arch on Leopard Checking in ffprocess_mac.py; /cvsroot/mozilla/testing/performance/talos/ffprocess_mac.py,v <-- ffprocess_mac.py new revision: 1.21; previous revision: 1.20 done http://hg.mozilla.org/build/talos/rev/bd373f708dce

Also updated http://build.mozilla.org/talos/zips/talos.zip for the two changes I've landed.