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On 10/11/2013 05:52 PM, dennis+p5p-jenkins@kaarsemaker.net wrote:
> Test Summary Report
> -------------------
> porting/podcheck.t (Wstat: 0 Tests: 1400 Failed: 2)
> Failed tests: 842, 1400
This is fixed for now via a temporary patch:
commit b68084b8883aecdacceb57c6c6566503ba6a0fdd
Author: Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>
Date: Fri Oct 11 22:54:36 2013 -0600
podcheck.t: Make blead pass again
Blead is failing sometimes on podcheck.t. I don't fully
understand the
reasons, but it is some sort of race condition.
The base problem that is causing this race to show up is a bug in the
new version 3.29 of Test::Harness. It includes 2 pods that have the
same name. This creates problems for reading the documentation in an
html browser. The software that creates the hyperlinks uses the pod
name to figure out what the linked-to document is. It cannot
figure out
which one to link to when multiple pods have the same name, as
here, so
podcheck raises an error. Test::Harness should change so that the
pods
have different names. It's like having two different Unix commands
named 'foobar'. Which one should `man foobar` display, if it
could only
display one?
I haven't figured out how to fix the race yet, so this commit just
ignores one of the conflicting files for now. The race has
something to
do with the fact that these are both cpan files which are not normally
examined for pod problems, and so the error for one of them is getting
suppressed; and which one of the two gets suppressed varies.
This bug in Test::Harness also manifested itself as showing up a
broken
link.
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