Re: Perl 5.16.0 RC0

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From:

Tony Cook

Date:

May 24, 2012 03:09

Subject:

Re: Perl 5.16.0 RC0

Message ID:

20120524100909.GA3193@mars.tony.develop-help.com

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:10:08AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
> Ricardo Signes wrote on 2012-05-11:
> > I've just uploaded the first release candidate of Perl 5.16.0 to
> PAUSE.
> > 
> > The files should be available soon, with the following SHA sums:
> > 
> >   3f08f8e00adc215ccbf6aff38c58eef58f4df102  perl-5.16.0-RC0.tar.bz2
> >   99ce35a3e1a48b6936e3e2e56966cb6736181875  perl-5.16.0-RC0.tar.gz 
> 
> Default build out-of-the-box on Windows 7 x64 with VC++ 2010 SP1 is
> sadly not a pleasant experience for me. As reported previously, numerous
> tests hang and have to be killed, yielding the test results below. As
> noted before, however, all is well aside from the intermittent fork.t
> test 24 failure if STDERR is redirected somewhere.
> 
> It's a great shame that I've not been able to fix this. Is anyone else
> seeing this, or is it just me? I get the same thing on two different
> machines, so it's at least not just one particular machine.

Another strangeness in the behaviour here:

  nmake test

hangs in various Module-Build tests.

But:

  nmake test TEST_FILES=..\cpan\Module-Build\t\*.t

runs the Module-Build tests without a problem.

  nmake test TEST_FILES="base/*.t ../cpan/Module-Build/t/*.t"

hangs in perl_mb_opt.t, as does:

  cd ../t
  .\perl harness base/cond.t ../cpan/Module-Build/t/perl_mb_opt.t

Tony

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