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| author | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-05-23 09:12:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com> | 2014-05-23 09:12:37 +0100 |
| commit | 80ccccdff59107c4ba712244ad455a3e1fcb4929 (patch) | |
| tree | b1090fbe9f1a6247424dc9d54e920d3b4685de50 | |
| parent | bf537ce68dee63d81957c87b81c78c2b32d223de (diff) | |
| download | perl-80ccccdff59107c4ba712244ad455a3e1fcb4929.tar.gz | |
Document known test failure in www.mingw.org builds of gcc-4.8.1 (at least)
This came up in perl #121643, but I forgot to add a note of this Known
Problem.
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diff --git a/README.win32 b/README.win32 index 55283adb55..b214f7e480 100644 --- a/README.win32 +++ b/README.win32 @@ -405,6 +405,10 @@ L<https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/811534/utime-somet if you need fixed C<stat> and C<utime> functions then have a look at the CPAN distribution Win32::UTCFileTime. +If you build with certain versions (e.g. 4.8.1) of gcc from www.mingw.org then +F<ext/POSIX/t/time.t> may fail test 17 due to a known bug in those gcc builds: +see L<http://sourceforge.net/p/mingw/bugs/2152/>. + Some test failures may occur if you use a command shell other than the native "cmd.exe", or if you are building from a path that contains spaces. So don't do that. |