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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:40:03 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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Subject: Re: 1.5.18: Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
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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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