Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/07/16/05:40:25
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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