This patch was written in-house, but ported from Python 2.7; it is unclear

from the version history why these lines were dropped in version 3.  The

patch has not yet been submitted upstream, but submission is planned.

--- Python-3.5.1rc1/Lib/test/test_gdb.py.~1~	2015-12-04 08:05:05.566320671 -0800

+++ Python-3.5.1rc1/Lib/test/test_gdb.py	2015-12-04 08:09:12.755287204 -0800

                             "embedding. Saw %s.%s:\n%s"

                             % (gdb_major_version, gdb_minor_version,

                                gdb_version))

+if sys.platform.startswith("sunos"):

+    raise unittest.SkipTest("test doesn't work very well on Solaris")

 if not sysconfig.is_python_build():

     raise unittest.SkipTest("test_gdb only works on source builds at the moment.")