I want to state at the outset that I have configured, built and tested new versions of Perl 5 on their release date on this machine for at least five different versions since 5.8.4. I have never previously had failures during my initial 'make test'. In all cases I have stuck to the bare-bones configuration described in INSTALL: sh Configure -de && make && make test Furthermore, I have successfully configured, built and tested 5.12.0 on Linux/i386. This is the failure report I got: Failed 2 tests out of 1687, 99.88% okay. ../lib/blib.t ../lib/locale.t ### Since not all tests were successful, you may want to run some of ### them individually and examine any diagnostic messages they produce. ### See the INSTALL document's section on "make test". ### You have a good chance to get more information by running ### ./perl harness ### in the 't' directory since most (>=80%) of the tests succeeded. ### You may have to set your dynamic library search path, ### DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, to point to the build directory: ### setenv DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH `pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ### DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd t; ./perl harness ### export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`; cd t; ./perl harness ### for csh-style shells, like tcsh; or for traditional/modern ### Bourne-style shells, like bash, ksh, and zsh, respectively. u=19.64 s=11.66 cu=1154.90 cs=314.70 scripts=1687 tests=349362 make: *** [test] Error 1 Following the instructions above, I reproduced these failures. Please see attachment and advise as to how I should proceed. Thank you very much. James E Keenan uname -a Darwin Macintosh-8.local 8.11.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpcThread Previous | Thread Next