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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:11:59PM -0600, Craig A. Berry wrote: > At 11:52 PM +0000 3/5/08, Nicholas Clark wrote: > >I've made another 5.8.x snapshot. > > > >http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-33444.tar.bz2 > >(or http://www.ccl4.org/~nick/P/perl-33444.tar.gz ) > > > >It's closing in on what 5.8.9 is going to be, give or take breakage, late > >interesting bug fixes, and resolution of some things that aren't quite there > >yet > > > >Aside from -Dodgy.pm on VOS, what is still broken that wasn't broken in 5.8.8? > > At 33430 (always just a bit behind you) on VMS I see: > > t/op/threads................................FAILED--expected 10 tests, saw 9 > ext/threads/shared/t/stress.................FAILED at test 1 > ext/threads/t/blocks........................FAILED--expected 5 tests, saw 4 > lib/ExtUtils/t/cd...........................FAILED at test 1 > lib/ExtUtils/t/eu_command...................FAILED at test 21 > lib/ExtUtils/t/xs...........................FAILED--non-zero wait status: 1024 > Failed 6 tests out of 1080, 99.44% okay. > > Obviously that's a threaded build. The threads failures are access > violations; I'll check whether 33436 does us any good there. Did these fail that way on 5.8.8? I'd be surprised if anything that changed recently changed threaded behaviour. > For the MakeMaker failures, eu_command.t and xs.t behaved after > upgrading to 6.43_01. cd.t I just patched last night: > > https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33813 > > If there are no further integrations of MakeMaker in the cards (I > think 6.44 is out), I can mark tests as TODO or otherwise patch the > tests if you wish. I'm not sure what to do here. Is MakeMaker in blead passing everywhere? There are still patches outstanding in ExtUtils::Install, aren't there? Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next