Backport PR pandas-dev#59813: CI: Debug failing ARM builds

pandas/tests/extension/test_sparse.py

@@ -348,11 +348,16 @@ def test_argmin_argmax_all_na(self, method, data, na_value):
         self._check_unsupported(data)
         super().test_argmin_argmax_all_na(method, data, na_value)
 
+    @pytest.mark.fails_arm_wheels
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("box", [pd.array, pd.Series, pd.DataFrame])
     def test_equals(self, data, na_value, as_series, box):
         self._check_unsupported(data)
         super().test_equals(data, na_value, as_series, box)
 
+    @pytest.mark.fails_arm_wheels
+    def test_equals_same_data_different_object(self, data):
+        super().test_equals_same_data_different_object(data)
+
     @pytest.mark.parametrize(
         "func, na_action, expected",
         [

pandas/tests/series/test_ufunc.py

@@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ def ufunc(request):
     return request.param
 
 
-@pytest.fixture(params=[True, False], ids=["sparse", "dense"])
+@pytest.fixture(
+    params=[pytest.param(True, marks=pytest.mark.fails_arm_wheels), False],
+    ids=["sparse", "dense"],
+)
 def sparse(request):
     return request.param
 

pyproject.toml

@@ -169,6 +169,14 @@ test-command = """
 before-build = "pip install delvewheel numpy==2.0.0rc1"
 repair-wheel-command = "delvewheel repair -w {dest_dir} {wheel}"
 
+[[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
+select = "*-manylinux_aarch64*"
+test-command = """
+  PANDAS_CI='1' python -c 'import pandas as pd; \
+  pd.test(extra_args=["-m not clipboard and not single_cpu and not slow and not network and not db and not fails_arm_wheels", "-n 2", "--no-strict-data-files"]); \
+  pd.test(extra_args=["-m not clipboard and single_cpu and not slow and not network and not db", "--no-strict-data-files"]);' \
+  """
+
 [[tool.cibuildwheel.overrides]]
 select = "*-musllinux*"
 before-test = "apk update && apk add musl-locales"
@@ -525,6 +533,10 @@ markers = [
   "clipboard: mark a pd.read_clipboard test",
   "arm_slow: mark a test as slow for arm64 architecture",
   "skip_ubsan: Tests known to fail UBSAN check",
+  # TODO: someone should investigate this ...
+  # these tests only fail in the wheel builder and don't fail in regular
+  # ARM CI
+  "fails_arm_wheels: Tests that fail in the ARM wheel build only",
 ]
 
 [tool.mypy]