[perl #3581] perl 5.6.0 bug: io_sock and io_udp test failures

On Wed Jul 26 16:12:47 2000, Richard.Foley@m.dasa.de wrote:
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: perl 5.6.0 bug?
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:02:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "David A. Robinson" <robinson@wharton.upenn.edu>
> To: perbug@rfi.net
> 
> Greetings:
> 
> I just struggled through the build of perl-5.6.0
> (perl-5.6.0-ss-11.00.tar.gz from an HP site) on HP-UX 11.00. During make
> test, I got errors for the tests of io_sock and io_udp: "(maybe your
> system does not have the 'localhost' address defined)". I went to the
> build/t/lib/io_sock.t (line 81) and build/t/lib/io_udp.t (line 66) files
> and saw the comments about the loopback address not being configured in
> /etc/rc.config.d/netconfig. The problem is, my loopback address *is*
> configured - in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file (the "netconfig"  file
> doesn't exist, AFAIK). Is this just a typo in the comment field, or is
> there a problem with some script looking for a "netconfig" file?
> 
> Anyway, I changed all instances of "localhost" to "myhost.mycompany.com"
> in the io_sock.t and io_udp.t files, and all the tests went through
> without any errors. But now I'm wondering if I just swept the error
> messages under the rug and if Perl is going to run properly.
> 
> Also, I downloaded Data-ShowTable-3.3 from a CPAN site, and there seems to
> be an error in the ShowTable.pm file, line 724:
> 
> 
> [, I<\@title_formats [, I<\@data_formats [, I<$table_attrs> ] ] ] ] ] ] ];
> 
> 
> make yields the following error:
> 
> ******* The error message: *******
> 
> cp ShowTable.pm blib/lib/Data/ShowTable.pm
> mkdir blib/script
>         cp showtable blib/script/showtable
>         /bin/perl -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0/PA-RISC2.0 -I/opt/perl5/lib/5.6.0
> -MExtUtils::MakeMaker  -e "MY->fixin(shift)" blib/script/showtable
> Manifying blib/man3/Data::ShowTable.3
> *** ERROR: unterminated I<...> at line 724 in file ShowTable.pm
> *** ERROR: unterminated I<...> at line 724 in file ShowTable.pm
> 
> ******* End error message *******
> 
> 
> So, I changed line 724 to:
> 
> [, I<\@title_formats> [, I<\@data_formats> [, I<$table_attrs> ] ] ] ]
] ] ];
> 
> (i.e., I added two instances of ">") and it compiled. 
> 
> Just thought I'd mention these things to somebody.
> 
> Regards,
>
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Thanks for your bug report! I'm assuming that someone took notice all
those years ago, since newer Perls build on HP-UX 11.10 just fine, so
I'm marking this as resolved; Feel free to reply back if you are still
having issues.

Tangentially related, it appears like the Data::ShowTable bug is still
there! Yikes. But it also looks like that module has been long
abandoned; the last update was from 1997.


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• [ID 20000726.003] [Fwd: perl 5.6.0 bug?] by Richard Foley
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