Re: libwww-perl-5b7 problems

Gisle Aas (aas@bergen.sn.no)
Wed, 07 Feb 1996 11:24:41 +0100


In message <ad3d6963@pjstoaster.pg.md.us>, Paul Schinder writes:
> 
> Gisle Aas <leprss!bergen.sn.no!aas> writes:
> } In message <199602061433.PAA03437@dutifp.twi.tudelft.nl>, Hans de Graaff wr
ites
> } :
> } > Just gave the b7 version a test-drive (with perl 5.002b3) on Solaris
> } > 2.4. 
> } > 
> } > A fairly large number of tests gave FAILED states. I didn't try to
> } > solve those yet. In fact, I'm not sure why the tests failed in the
> } > first place.
> } 
> } Bad news! I had no problems when running these tests on Linux or
> } SunOS4. Can you provide more information?
> 
> Here's what happened to me today when I installed lwp5b7 just after
> installing perl 5.002b3 on my Sun running 4.1.4:

Perhaps this has to do with me using perl5.002b2 when testing myself.
Did something happen to the Test::Harness module between 2b2 and 2b3?

> leprss% make test
> /usr/local/bin/perl -I./blib t/TEST 0
> base/afm............ok
> base/base64.........FAILED before any test output arrived
> base/date...........FAILED before any test output arrived
> base/entities.......ok
> base/headers........FAILED test
>         Failed 0/8 tests, 100.00% okay
> base/html-parse.....ok
> base/mailcap........FAILED test
>         Failed 0/5 tests, 100.00% okay
> base/mediatypes.....FAILED before any test output arrived
> base/message........FAILED test
>         Failed 0/5 tests, 100.00% okay
> base/quoted-print...ok
> base/robot-rules....ok
> base/status.........ok
> base/uri............FAILED before any test output arrived
> local/autoload......ok
> local/get...........ok
> Failed 7/15 test scripts, 53.33% okay.
> make: *** [test] Error 2
> 
> Some of them look a little bizzare (Failed 0/8 tests,...).