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Postings from May 2002
John Poltorak [mailto:jp@eyup.org] asks: > With Jarkko's help, I've mamged to get Perl to compile on > OS/2 straight out of the latest snapshot. There are still > a few failing test scripts which I'd like to sort out, but > it passes 98.3%, which isn't bad IMV, but I'd like to know > what is generally achieved on other platforms... It took me at least a day of work to correct each failing test on Stratus VOS. Sometimes it took several days of work. The causes were all over the map; bugs in VOS itself, assumptions in Perl about the underlying platform, and assumptions in the test cases themselves. I was able to get to 100% success but it was a LOT of work. I think you kind of need to look at which tests are failing; some tests aren't as critical as others.