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Re: 1.5.18: Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- To: Andrew Ho <andrew at tellme dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:40:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: 1.5.18: Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.62.0507160052140.18081@shell02.corp.tellme.com>
Andrew Ho wrote:
Hello,
It appears that on the latest version of Cygwin's Perl, Perl modules
with regression tests (for example, ones you can download from CPAN)
fail "make test" on every other test. I did some experimentation and
this appears to happen only if the modules are in a subdirectory
(typically "lib") rather than in the install root.
How to reproduce:
* Upgrade to latest versions of all Cygwin packages (probably
Perl is the only relevant one)
* Download any CPAN module (or create a Perl module) whose files
are in a "lib" subdirectory. Lingua::EN::Inflect is an arbitrary
example of one that is unlikely to be already installed.
* Run through the usual Perl install steps:
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
* Observe that "make test" fails on every other test (odd numbered
runs, apparently).
I have reduced this breakage to the smallest possible test case:
http://www.zeuscat.com/andrew/src/TestModule.tar.gz
No problems here with Lingua::EN::Inflect, cannot reproduce it. Maybe
you have some non Cygwin environment settings? It happens to be a known
problem that MakeMaker passes the VC++ environment setting for LIB
through to the Makefile and most of the time it fails to compile because
it is a path in LIB with non quoted backslashes or even worse a path
including spaces.
$ perl Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Lingua::EN::Inflect
$ make
cp demo_NO.pl blib/lib/Lingua/EN/demo_NO.pl
cp demo_eq.pl blib/lib/Lingua/EN/demo_eq.pl
cp demo_PL.pl blib/lib/Lingua/EN/demo_PL.pl
cp demo_inflect.pl blib/lib/Lingua/EN/demo_inflect.pl
cp demo_NUM.pl blib/lib/Lingua/EN/demo_NUM.pl
cp lib/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm blib/lib/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm
$ make test
/usr/bin/perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0,
'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/classical_all..........ok
t/classical_ancient......ok
t/classical_ancient_1....ok
t/classical_herd.........ok
t/classical_herd_1.......ok
t/classical_names........ok
t/classical_names_1......ok
t/classical_person.......ok
t/classical_person_1.....ok
t/classical_zero.........ok
t/classical_zero_1.......ok
t/inflections............ok
All tests successful.
Files=12, Tests=1413, 10 wallclock secs ( 7.47 cusr + 1.87 csys = 9.34
CPU)
For some reason, this doesn't appear to break modules that are tested
under the CPAN shell ("make test" passes for modules built that way).
Another hint that there may be some unusual environment setting?
The Perl package is 5.8.7-2. Here is the output of uname -srm:
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) i686
I and my co-workers have reproduced this on several different computers,
all running Windows XP.
I am on XP here too, don't know if it matters, I tested Lingua::.. at
the same machine where the latest perl release was compiled.
Gerrit
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