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From:
Andy Dougherty
Date:
May 8, 2012 04:04
Subject:
Re: [perl #41477] Archive::Extract problems in perl@30178
Message ID:
alpine.DEB.2.00.1205080703380.28354@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu
On Mon, 7 May 2012, James E Keenan via RT wrote:

> On Fri Feb 09 12:35:43 2007, doughera wrote:
> > I haven't built bleedperl in a while on Solaris 8.  When I tried
> > today, I got the following error messages from Archive::Extract.
> > Does anybody know what it's trying to do so I can figure out if the
> > problem is in Archive::Extract or in the tests?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > $ cd t
> > $ ./perl -I../lib harness ../lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-
> > Extract.t
> > 
> > ../lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract....
> > #   Failed test 'Found correct output file 'y/z''
> > #   at ../lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t line 328.
> > #          got: 'tar: blocksize = 0'
> > #     expected: 'y/z'
> > 
> > #   Failed test 'Output file '/home/doughera/src/perl/perl-
> > current/lib/Archive/Extract/t/out/y/z' exists'
> > #   at ../lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t line 331.
> > 
[skipped]

> > ../lib/Archive/Extract/t/01_Archive-Extra    9  2304   835    9  265-
> > 266 269
> >                                                                  276-
> > 277 280
> >                                                                  673-
> > 674 677
> > 81 subtests skipped.
> > Failed 1/1 test scripts. 9/835 subtests failed.
> > Files=1, Tests=835, 27 wallclock secs ( 9.52 cusr +  6.90 csys = 16.42
> > CPU)
> > Failed 1/1 test programs. 9/835 subtests failed.
> > 
> 
> Do these Archive::Extract problems persist on Solaris with more recent
> Perls?

This problem was fixed by:

    commit 9e5a0ef9e3b384b74d165fbf84bdd9d6d3f8d6dc
    Author: Jos I. Boumans <kane@dwim.org>
    Date:   Thu Sep 20 17:46:24 2007 +0200

The problem was an old version of bzip2, which insisted on a .bz2 suffix.

Thanks,
    
-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera@lafayette.edu

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