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Re: [perl #129933] [PATCH] t/uni/overload.t: Skip hanging test onFreeBSD

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From:
Dan Collins
Date:
October 21, 2016 23:31
Subject:
Re: [perl #129933] [PATCH] t/uni/overload.t: Skip hanging test onFreeBSD
Message ID:
CA+tt54JrLd+jKZu6oOvMEt8FJDhbhtt7VjixQ=C2cEB09BGfRg@mail.gmail.com
James,

This is a new test that was only merged in this morning. I'd appreciate you
testing commit 111da7867, and specifically t/uni/overload.t, and if it
doesn't hang on your VM, we can consider disabling the test only for
FreeBSD 11 and greater.

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:28 PM, James E Keenan via RT <
perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:

> On Fri Oct 21 14:46:35 2016, khw wrote:
> > Thanks, appied as e7619ccdfa0f8562897ad922b44837e5f65194e9
>
> Dan, Karl:
>
> I would like to reconsider this patch, specifically, to make it apply to
> FreeBSD versions 11.0 and greater.
>
> As you know, I have been smoketesting FreeBSD 10.3 since August.  That
> includes both automated testing and reporting to
> http://perl5.test-smoke.org/search as well as manual testing of blead
> within a VM.  On 10.3 I have not observed the problem you describe.  In
> contrast, as I mentioned on #p5p, when run on 11.0, the tests in t/re/*.t
> are highly likely to lock up my system.
>
> So I think we should make the test more version-specific.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> --
> James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org)
>

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