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From:
James E Keenan via RT
Date:
March 4, 2013 02:03
Subject:
[perl #116961] Data::Dumper 2.143 tests failures on 5.10.1
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-28177-1362362625-1396.116961-15-0@perl.org
On Sat Mar 02 19:58:34 2013, xdg@xdg.me wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:08 PM, James E Keenan via RT
> <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> > Undefined subroutine &Data::Dumper::Dumpxs called at
> blib/lib/Data/Dumper.pm line 223.
> 
> I've tried commenting on perlbug and it's eating my replies, so I'll
> reply here.  Apologies if it shows up multiple times.
> 
> Problem is that tests are overriding $Data::Dumper::Useperl when they
> shouldn't (trying to test XS when XS doesn't work).
> 
> On older Perl's, XS doesn't load because of a missing symbol:
> 
>     Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR
> 
> David
> 

David, I don't understand your response.  It doesn't seem to take into
account the problem I reported in my most recent (Feb 28) post, namely,
that I can reproduce the problem on a current (5.16.0) Perl on at least
one operating system (Darwin).  (And I've since reproduced it on a
second Darwin machine, this time Darwin/PPC.)

Moreover, the test file that I used to demonstrate this in my last post,
t/bless.t, is one file to which we made no changes whatsoever in going
from D::D 2.139 to 2.143.  So even if the "tests are overriding
$Data::Dumper::Useperl when they shouldn't", why is this problem only
showing up with 2.143 and not earlier versions?

I'm attaching output from three different ways of testing one test file
from D::D 2.143 on the same (Darwin) machine:  (a) with the latest
installed 'prove'; (b) with installed perl 5.16; (c) with blead as of today.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan



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