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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2001 16:53:39 -0500
From:	John Peacock <jpeacock AT rowman DOT com>
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To:	Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: compile perl- percentage of tests expected to pass- 96% okay
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Peter Buckley wrote:
> 
> I compiled perl and when I do "make test" I only get 96% okay-
> Searching the MLA I see that some people have gotten 99+% okay- is there
> something special I need to do to build perl under cygwin? I just did a
> configure -d to accept all the defaults.

Which Perl?  I am getting 100% success with bleadperl (5.7.2/5.8.0 to be), but 
I know that others are still getting some nagging failures.  I suspect that 
there will be a class of tests which will frequently fail unless you are:

	- running NT4 or W2K
	- on a machine that is a member of a domain
	- and using ntsec

I know that a lot of work has happened recently to fix problems which still 
existed in 5.6.1, both cross-platform and CygWin specific, so you are better
off with bleadperl than with the so-called stable perl.

HTH

John

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