On Wednesday 11 January 2006 05:07 am, Michael Cummings wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 05:00 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote:
> > Sorry I didn't make that clearer - the results below were generated
> > _completely_ outside of portage; for each test I manually unpacked,
> > perl Makefile.pl, make, make test in the traditional way. The only
> > thing I can see that was different was the perl I used (same make, same
> > version of Extutils::Command, etc. ).
>
> But in the tests results you pasted (or at least what I read) the tests
> failed in the same ways, the only discernable difference being from
> different versions of Test::(more? simple? same package, you know what I
> mean :)

Well...the Test::Simple/More suite wasn't the problem. It was a beta
version ( 2.57_03 ) of Test::Harness that I had installed in the module
tree in some former life that was causing the problem. Went to
Test::Harness-2.56 and everything is fine!

Sorry for the wasted bandwidth everyone...

>
> > I guess I will proceed to get into big trouble by building a perl in
> > portage (overriding the standard) with the configuration I used in
> > my /home/beau perl. If my system is still running :) I'll get back to
> > you soon.
>
> I'd be curious to see where the deliminating factor is that could result
> in different return codes on dies...that's just plain lala :)

lala happens.
Programmer stupidity is a close second.

>
> > PS: Sorry about posting the patch on the list - will bugzilla from now
> > on.
>
> Bah, if i didn't give the disclaimer, i'd regret it later. now i have it
> in writing somewhere ;)
>
> > --
> > Aloha => Beau;
>
> ~mcummings

-- 
Aloha => Beau;

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