I'm not sure if anyone has ever replied to your message. Sorry. On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:24:18PM -0400, Alexandros M Manoussakis wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from amm2@andrew.cmu.edu, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.33 running under perl v5.8.0. > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > [Please enter your report here] > > Compiling perl-5.8.0-RC1 on a FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE gives me > 3 tests failures during "make test". > > b/ExtUtils/t/Command...............# Failed test (../lib/ExtUtils/t/Command.t at line 104) > # '456' > # <= > # '1' > # mtime == 1024531111, should be 1024530655 > FAILED at test 10 > > lib/ExtUtils/t/Mkbootstrap...........# Failed test (../lib/ExtUtils/t/Mkbootstrap.t at line 87) > # '' > # doesn't match '(?-xism:Unable to open dasboot\.bs)' > FAILED at test 8 > > > lib/ExtUtils/t/Packlist..............# Failed test (../lib/ExtUtils/t/Packlist.t at line 98) > # '' > # doesn't match '(?-xism:Can't open file)' > FAILED at test 17 > > I have no trouble compiling/testing 5.6.1 on the same machine > I also tried 5.8.0-RC1 on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, and it didn't have the > first failure but had the other 2 (MkBootstrap and Packlist) > What could be the problem? I've no idea. I've not seen any problems with the current development source (post RC2) on FreeBSD 4.6 on three different systems. If your system is now on 4.6-RELEASE have you been able to rebuild and retest perl? If so, do you still see the same problem? Nicholas Clark -- Even better than the real thing: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/