5.8.8 has been failing a single test on smokes with Mac OS X/PPC for a long time -- see the message below (and ignore the HiRes.t failure -- the system was doing other stuff as well as smoking). After upgrading to the latest Test::Smoke and getting around to looking at the logs, I find: Extending failures with harness: ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t Undefined symbols: "_Perl_sys_init3", referenced from: _main in ccJIPQQS.o "_Perl_sys_term", referenced from: _main in ccJIPQQS.o ld: symbol(s) not found collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Failed 1/1 test programs. 9/9 subtests failed. ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed....FAILED tests 1-9 Failed 9/9 tests, 0.00% okay Does this ring a bell with anyone? Begin forwarded message: > From: shouldbedomo@mac.com > Date: 20 August 2008 19:45:00.000 > To: smokers-reports@perl.org > Subject: Smoke [5.8.8] 34096 FAIL(F) darwin 9.4.0 (macppcG5/1 cpu) > > Automated smoke report for 5.8.8 patch 34096 > Tullamore.local: iMac G5 (1.6 GHz) (macppcG5/1 cpu) > on darwin - 9.4.0 (Mac OS X) > using cc version 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5484) > smoketime 9 hours 40 minutes (average 1 hour 12 minutes) > > Summary: FAIL(F) > > O = OK F = Failure(s), extended report at the bottom > X = Failure(s) under TEST but not under harness > ? = still running or test results not (yet) available > Build failures during: - = unknown or N/A > c = Configure, m = make, M = make (after miniperl), t = make test-prep > > 34096 Configuration (common) -Doptimize='-O1 -g' > ----------- --------------------------------------------------------- > O O O O O O > O O O O O O -Drelocatableinc > F F F F F F -Duseithreads > F F F F F F -Duseithreads -Drelocatableinc > | | | | | +- LC_ALL = en_GB.UTF-8 -DDEBUGGING > | | | | +--- PERLIO = perlio -DDEBUGGING > | | | +----- PERLIO = stdio -DDEBUGGING > | | +------- LC_ALL = en_GB.UTF-8 > | +--------- PERLIO = perlio > +----------- PERLIO = stdio > > Locally applied patches: > MAINT33934 > SMOKE34096 > > Failures: (common-args) -Doptimize='-O1 -g' > [stdio/perlio/en_GB.UTF-8] -Duseithreads > [stdio/perlio/en_GB.UTF-8] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads > [stdio/perlio/en_GB.UTF-8] -Duseithreads -Drelocatableinc > [perlio/en_GB.UTF-8] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Drelocatableinc > ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t...............FAILED 1-9 > > [stdio] -DDEBUGGING -Duseithreads -Drelocatableinc > ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t...............FAILED 1-9 > Inconsistent test results (between TEST and harness): > ../ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes.t.............FAILED at test 23 > > Compiler messages(gcc): > op.c: In function 'Perl_fold_constants': > op.c:2119: warning: argument 'o' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' or > 'vfork' > perlio.c: In function 'PerlIOStdio_set_ptrcnt': > perlio.c:3421: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ in > signedness > opmini.c: In function 'Perl_fold_constants': > opmini.c:2119: warning: argument 'o' might be clobbered by 'longjmp' > or 'vfork' > > -- > Report by Test::Smoke v1.35 build 1199 running on perl 5.8.8 > (Reporter v0.033 / Smoker v0.041) > -- Dominic Dunlop