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Re: [ID 20020312.007] Perl 5.7.3 test failures on Cray T90, T3E

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Michael G Schwern
Date:
March 12, 2002 20:25
Subject:
Re: [ID 20020312.007] Perl 5.7.3 test failures on Cray T90, T3E
Message ID:
20020313042543.GC6478@blackrider
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:52:34PM -0800, Keith Thompson wrote:
> I've built Perl 5.7.3 on a Cray T90 and a Cray T3E.  There are a few
> failures in "make test" on each machine.
> 
> I tried to run "perlbug5.7.3" on the T90, but it died with the
> following error:
> 
> Can't locate object method "tmpdir" via package "File::Spec" at
> perlbug5.7.3 line 880, <> chunk 6.

That's a bit odd.  Almost as if it was being run with an older version
of Perl.  You don't happen to have 5.005_03 installed, do you?


> I've set up a web page with the information I have so far.
> It's admittedly incomplete; I have the output of "make test", but I
> haven't yet re-run any of the tests in more detail.  I'll try to do
> that as soon as I can.
> 
> The web page is <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst/perl-5.7.3/>.
> 
> More info to follow.

Looks very promising!

I'm going to be perverse and ask you to try a run with ithreads. :)


-- 

Michael G. Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>    http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Perl Quality Assurance	    <perl-qa@perl.org>	       Kwalitee Is Job One
Realize this, sweetheart, I'm squeezing my poodle.

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