From fa09c185cf93a599dc0290b9ee4ba0149df70363 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Clark Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:30:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Re: [ID 20020305.018] test failures with perl5.7.3 on FreeBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <20020305223049.GH1693@Bagpuss.unfortu.net> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15053 --- pod/perldelta.pod | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 04c2e5d..2a080f6 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -2533,16 +2533,18 @@ Don't panic. Read INSTALL 'make test' section instead. The subtests 11 and 12 sometimes fail and sometimes work. -=head2 FreeBSD 4.5 fails lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t +=head2 FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 fail lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t -F tests that "`` works" by running a -a perl 1 liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. -It is failing on FreeBSD 4.5, but only when run as part of make test. +F tests that "`` works" by running a a perl 1 +liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. It is known to be +failing on FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5, but only when run as part of make test. This seems to be a kernel problem rather than perl - reading the symlink F returns "unknown" rather than the path to perl, and a kernel debugger reveals that variable C in F is being incremented whenever F fails to return the perl executable's path. +[If you find that if fails on other versions of FreeBSD, please use perlbug +to report them to us. If you are able to fix the bug, even better.] =head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured -- 2.7.4