Re: Bug report for libwww-perl-5.33 on Solaris

Gisle Aas (gisle@aas.no)
15 Jul 1998 13:23:56 +0200 

arthur@netuser.com writes:

> Installing libwww-perl-5.33 on a Solaris system:
> 
> uname -a 
> SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-05 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5
> 
> perl -v
> This is perl, version 5.004_01
> 
> Here is the output of make test:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/perl -e 'use Config; chdir q{./blib/script}; foreach (qw(GET HEAD POST)) {' \
> -e 'unlink "$_";' \
> -e 'system("$Config{\"lns\"} lwp-request $_") && die; }'
> /usr/local/bin/perl t/TEST 0
> base/common-req.....ok
> base/cookies........ok
> base/date...........ok
> base/headers-auth...ok
> base/headers-etag...ok
> base/headers-util...ok
> base/headers........ok
> base/listing........ok
> base/mediatypes.....ok
> base/message........ok
> base/negotiate......ok
> base/response.......ok
> base/status.........ok
> uri/base............Use of uninitialized value at /usr/local/src/libwww-perl-5.33/t/../blib/lib/URI/URL/ftp.pm line 51.
> ok
> uri/heuristic.......Use of uninitialized value at ../blib/lib/URI/Heuristic.pm line 94.
> ok
> uri/rel-base........ok
> robot/rules-dbm.....ok
> robot/rules.........ok
> robot/ua.............HTTP Server terminated
> FAILED tests 1-3, 5, 7
>         Failed 5/7 tests, 28.57% okay
> local/autoload......ok
> local/get...........ok
> local/http..........Can't call method "is_redirect" without a package or object reference at local/http.t line 177, <DAEMON> chunk 1.
> dubious
>         Test returned status 2 (wstat 512)
> DIED. FAILED tests 1-18
>         Failed 18/18 tests, 0.00% okay
> local/protosub......ok
> Failed Test  Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> local/http.t      2   512    18   18 100.00%  1-18
> robot/ua.t                    7    5  71.43%  1-3, 5, 7
> Failed 2/23 test scripts, 91.30% okay. 23/291 subtests failed, 92.10% okay.
> *** Error code 29
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'
> 
> 
> I don't have time to debug these puppies, and others may have already
> reported this - so I figured I'd better report this just in case.
> 
> I'd appreciate a reply if there's anything serious to worry about here.

This kind of failures usually occur for hosts that can't resolv their
own name.  For instance because the hostname is not present in
/etc/hosts.

Regards,
Gisle