Hi -

Me again. I am still having problems with return code
from a failed make test. Here is a specific example using
the ebuild I created for DBD-mysql. On my system I run with
the normal gentoo perl:

* dev-lang/perl
     Available versions:  5.8.6-r5 5.8.6-r6 5.8.6-r7 5.8.6-r8 5.8.7 5.8.7-r1 
5.8.7-r2 5.8.7-r3
     Installed:           5.8.7-r3
     Homepage:            http://www.perl.org/
     Description:         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Reporting 
Language

and a perl compiled from the perl.org stable sources
and installed on a user (/home/beau).

I force a failure in the DBD-mysql my specifying an invalid
user name on the perl Makefile.PL command.

Using the 'normal' gentoo perl make test:

[...]
FAILED before any test output arrived
t/mysql2.............Mysql 
connect('database=test;host=;mysql_emulated_prepare=1','mysqlx',...) failed: 
Access denied for user 'mysqlx'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at 
t/mysql2.t line 29
Can't call method "getserverinfo" on an undefined value at t/mysql2.t line 30.
t/mysql2.............dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/10dsnlist.t         10  2560     9   17 188.89%  1-9
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[...yada,yada...]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/mysql.t                         ??   ??       %  ??
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/mysql2.t           255 65280    ??   ??       %  ??
1 test skipped.
Failed 19/21 test scripts, 9.52% okay. 890/897 subtests failed, 0.78% okay.
Files=21, Tests=897,  7 wallclock secs ( 1.77 cusr +  0.24 csys =  2.01 CPU)
$ echo $?
0

Using a perl compiled from the perl.org source:

[...]
FAILED before any test output arrived
t/mysql2.............Mysql 
connect('database=test;host=;mysql_emulated_prepare=1','mysqlx',...) failed: 
Access denied for user 'mysqlx'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at 
t/mysql2.t line 29
Can't call method "getserverinfo" on an undefined value at t/mysql2.t line 30.
t/mysql2.............dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
Failed Test         Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/10dsnlist.t         10  2560     9   17 188.89%  1-9
[...yada,yada...]
t/mysql2.t           255 65280    ??   ??       %  ??
1 test skipped.
Failed 19/21 test scripts, 9.52% okay. 890/897 subtests failed, 0.78% okay.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
$ echo $?
2

NOTE: 
1) gentoo perl return 0
2) my perl returns 2 and says "make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255"

The differences in perl -V seem to be:

gentoo has:
cc='i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc'

while I have:
cc='cc'
-Duseshrplib defined

I am totally confused! I wonder if anyone can reproduce this
or if it is a figment of a misconfiguration of mine?

-- 
Aloha => Beau;

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