Unexpected aspects of expected failures.

I put out PPIx::Shorthand recently.  As part of doing this, I wanted to see how far I could get with a Build.PL, no Makefile.PL, but a "dynamic_config: 0" in META.yml.

I got the expected failures, but some of them have some weird problems.

An example failure report that exhibits both issues: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/03/msg1239470.html

This report was done using perl 5.8.8, but there are similar problems with other versions.

1) 'Unknown command paragraph "=encoding utf8"'

Huh?  "encoding utf8" has been around since 5.8.1, as far as I understand.

2) 'MAKE TEST failed: Illegal seek'

I have no idea where this comes from.


Any ideas?

• Unexpected aspects of expected failures. by Elliot Shank