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This seems reasonable. I had expected "fresh_perl" to hide those failures, but that seems to be /very/ platform dependent. Let's just skip that test altogether. On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:37 AM, Dave Mitchell via RT < perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 04:56:06PM -0700, James E Keenan via RT wrote: > > Dan, I mostly retract the above. On FreeBSD-10.3 I have never had a > > 'make test' failure due to this test. However, just now, I ran this > > test by itself first with your patch and then with the crucial line from > > your patch commented out. > > Personally I think the test should be removed completely. It is a test > that is *expected* to SEGV. This means that now on the stderr of a typical > perl build, you get this alarming output: > > sh: line 1: 5106 Segmentation fault (core dumped) > /home/davem/perl5/git/bleed/perl "-I../lib" "tmp5097A" 2>&1 > > Normally one peruses stderr to look for problems in the build - this is > a scary false positive. > > > > -- > A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single step... > then continues for another 1,999,999 or so. > > >Thread Previous | Thread Next