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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2002-03-05 22:30:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2002-03-06 00:31:02 +0000 |
| commit | fa09c185cf93a599dc0290b9ee4ba0149df70363 (patch) | |
| tree | 4558f54d8db921d669275482dc48958b920948d0 /pod | |
| parent | 0ad373b6ac664c739ef27968c44a6d6a5387a7ab (diff) | |
| download | perl-fa09c185cf93a599dc0290b9ee4ba0149df70363.tar.gz | |
Re: [ID 20020305.018] test failures with perl5.7.3 on FreeBSD 4.3
Message-ID: <20020305223049.GH1693@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15053
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 04c2e5db9f..2a080f67cd 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -2533,16 +2533,18 @@ Don't panic. Read INSTALL 'make test' section instead. The subtests 11 and 12 sometimes fail and sometimes work. -=head2 FreeBSD 4.5 fails lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t +=head2 FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 fail lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t -F<lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t> tests that "`` works" by running a -a perl 1 liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. -It is failing on FreeBSD 4.5, but only when run as part of make test. +F<lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t> tests that "`` works" by running a a perl 1 +liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. It is known to be +failing on FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5, but only when run as part of make test. This seems to be a kernel problem rather than perl - reading the symlink F</proc/curproc/file> returns "unknown" rather than the path to perl, and a kernel debugger reveals that variable C<numfullpathfail2> in F</usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c> is being incremented whenever F</proc/curproc/file> fails to return the perl executable's path. +[If you find that if fails on other versions of FreeBSD, please use perlbug +to report them to us. If you are able to fix the bug, even better.] =head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured |