Right on, I was on NFS, great catch! Compiling and running make test in /var/tmp passed all tests with no problems. Do the tests need to be tweaked so they run on NFS too you think? perl-5.6.1 tests ok on NFS. By the way, is perl-5.8.0 supposed to work on FreeBSD with threads enabled? Compilation fails on all my systems unless I remove -pthread and use linuxthreads instead. Is that the best way to do it on FreeBSD ? Thanks again! Alex Here's the compilation errors (with -Dusethreads -Duseithreads) gcc -pthread -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -o miniperl miniperlmain.o opmini.o libperl.a -lm -lc_r -lcrypt -lutil libperl.a(util.o): In function `Perl_my_popen_list': util.o(.text+0x2806): undefined reference to `__pthread_sleep' util.o(.text+0x29b7): undefined reference to `__pthread_read' libperl.a(util.o): In function `Perl_my_popen': util.o(.text+0x2b9e): undefined reference to `__pthread_sleep' util.o(.text+0x2dd3): undefined reference to `__pthread_read' libperl.a(util.o): In function `Perl_my_fork': util.o(.text+0x2ef1): undefined reference to `__pthread_fork' libperl.a(util.o): In function `Perl_wait4pid': util.o(.text+0x3173): undefined reference to `__pthread_waitpid' On 13 Jul 2002, Slaven Rezic wrote: > Alexandros Manoussakis <amm2@ini.cmu.edu> writes: > > > I don't have any 4.6-RELEASE, and I'm still seeing the exact same error > > messages with perl-5.8.0-RC2 on FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, and 4.5-STABLE > > > > All three failures seem to be related to filesystem problems. Are you > using NFS or a plain FFS filesystem? Do you run the tests as root or a > normal user? > > Regards, > Slaven > > > Alex > > > > On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 08:24:18PM -0400, Alexandros M Manoussakis wrote: > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Slaven Rezic - slaven.rezic@berlin.de > > tksm - Perl/Tk program for searching and replacing in multiple files > http://ptktools.sourceforge.net/#tksm >