rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver) (11/14/90)
I just installed perl (v3.0, upto PL40) on our Silicon Graphics 4D
Workstation. It compiles OK, but when I run TEST, it doesn't run a
single test! It just comes back and tells me that no tests were run
for some reason. When I try to run them by hand many of them appear
to work just fine.
Has anybody else seen this behaviour? I figured I'd ask the net before
starting to hack at the code.
Any pointers, suggestions etc. appreciated.
Thanks.
Rob
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The Netherlands +31 15 616864kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) (11/15/90)
In article <rob.658531354@dutncp8> rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver) writes: >I just installed perl (v3.0, upto PL40) ... >It compiles OK, but when I run TEST, it doesn't run a >single test! I had the same problem. If I recall, there was a patch to TEST in patch 38-40, but the hunk failed. So, I had to apply it by hand. It added support for new test scripts. Anyway, after applying the patch by hand, TEST would not run. The problem was the symbols ARGV and ARGX. They are both supposed to be the ARGV. If you have both ARGV and ARGX in your TEST, your problem is solved. Just replace the string 'ARGX' with 'ARGV' and TEST should run fine. Somehow my TEST must have had only ARGX in it, which explains why the patch must have failed. I must have missed an earlier failed patch to TEST somewhere along the way. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kevin Gallagher kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org OR ...!uunet!digi!kgallagh DSC Communications OR apcihq!apcidfw!digi!kgallagh ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
lynn@alberta.uucp (Alynn Klassen) (11/20/90)
In article <rob.658531354@dutncp8>, rob@pact (Rob Kurver) writes: >I just installed perl (v3.0, upto PL40) on our Silicon Graphics 4D >Workstation. It compiles OK, but when I run TEST, it doesn't run a >single test! It just comes back and tells me that no tests were run >for some reason. When I try to run them by hand many of them appear >to work just fine. >Has anybody else seen this behaviour? I figured I'd ask the net before >starting to hack at the code. >Any pointers, suggestions etc. appreciated. >Rob Hi, I experienced the same behaviour with my 4D 340s running IRIX 3.3.1 but not with the older 3.2 OS. Many of the tests, however, ran correctly when run individually by hand. I noticed that TEST was "failing" on the lines: if ($ARGV[0] eq '') { @ARGV = split(/[ \n]/,`echo base.* comp.* cmd.* io.* op.* lib.*`); } specifically the `echo...` was not working. I vaguely recalled that there was some incompatibility introduced in 3.3.1 with the BSD add-ons, specifically vfork. I commented out the line: #define VFORK /**/ in config.h and everything worked fine. Lynn. -- Alynn B. Klassen Manager of Computer Operations | phone : (403) 492-3842 Dept of Computing Science | fax : (403) 492-1071 615 General Services Building | Internet : lynn@cs.ualberta.ca University of Alberta | uucp : lynn@alberta.uucp Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1