Thanks for this report On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 08:55:01AM -0000, root @ sm5sxl. net wrote: > In make test of 5.8.4, lib/h2xs fails. > The whole suite bails out with errors at the end. Your output actually shows 2 tests failing: > lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant..............make: don't know how to make w. Stop > FAILED at test 3 > lib/h2xs.............................# Failed test (../lib/h2xs.t at line 158) > # got: 512 > # expected: 0 > FAILED at test 94 > Failed 2 test scripts out of 811, 99.75% okay. You sent a patch for h2xs.t as bug report 29623 - presumably this fixes the problems you report here with h2xs.t failing. Am I right in assuming that it doesn't solve the lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant failure? The message "don't know how to make w" is somewhat strange. Any ideas where that's coming from? (ie why make thinks that it needs to make a target named 'w'? I've been building perl on FreeBSD for quite a while now and never seen any error like that, so I'm not sure where to start. Nicholas Clark