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On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:17:32 GMT, jkeenan@pobox.com wrote: > If you never test for something, you'll never know where some failures > may lie. Once you start testing, you may be chagrined at all the > failures you encounter. > > That's what we're learning as we test more varied configurations on more > platforms in our smoke testing runs. > > When we build perl with '-Duselongdouble' on NetBSD, perl builds but we > get failures in five files in the test suite. See these smoke testing > reports submitted by Carlos Guevara for blead at commit 74cd64c71 (Aug > 18 2019). > > netbsd-7.2 g++-4.8.5 http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/93327 > netbsd-7.2 gcc-4.8.5 http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/93353 > netbsd-8.1 g++-5.5.0 http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/93352 > netbsd-8.1 gcc-5.5.0 http://perl5.test-smoke.org/report/93329 > > Test failures: > ~~ ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/03-xsstatic.t .................. FAILED > 5 Non-zero exit status: 6 > ~~ ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/basic.t ........................ FAILED > 22-28 Non-zero exit status: 7 > ~~ ../ext/POSIX/t/math.t ....................................... FAILED > Non-zero exit status: 1 No plan found in TAP output > ~~ ../t/op/sprintf2.t .......................................... FAILED 1459 > ~~ ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/02-xsdynamic.t ................. FAILED > 5 71 Non-zero exit status: 12 > > AFAICT these are among the first smoke test runs done on NetBSD with > -Duselongdouble in the configuration. So there's no evidence (yet) that > this is a regression from a more idyllic state in the past. > > Note that these failures do not include cpan/Scalar-List-Utils/t/uniq.t, > where the commit that generated a failure on multiple platforms has been > reverted. (https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134358) > > Note that these failures also do not reflect the clang++ problems with > -Duselongdouble discussed in > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134371 and > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134375. Neither clang nor > clang++ is being used in any of these NetBSD smoke test rigs. > > If there's anyone with NetBSD experience (or even mere access) who can > take a look at these, that would be appreciated. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan > > perl perl perl I have installed a NetBSD-8.0 VM and have built perl blead with -Duselongdouble. I am getting the same test failures Carlos is seeing in his smoke-test reports. See attachments. -- James E Keenan (jkeenan@cpan.org) --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=134376Thread Previous