Subject: Re: two failed tests w/ perl 5.8.7 on Darwin 10.3.9
To: Mark E. Perkins <perkinsm@bway.net>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/06/2005 21:34:51
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 04:15:03PM -0400, Mark E. Perkins wrote:
> I just did a build and test of the new perl 5.8.7 package. Build goes
> w/o a hitch, but test reports two failures:
> 
> 	lib/ExtUtils/t/basic......................#     Failed test 		
> (../lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.t at line 135)
> 	FAILED at test 34
> 
> 		.
> 		.
> 		.
> 
> 	lib/ExtUtils/t/Install....................#     Failed test 		
> (../lib/ExtUtils/t/Install.t at line 41)
> 	#          got: 'Skip blib/lib/Big/Dummy.pm (unchanged)
> 	# '
> 	#     expected: 'cp lib/Big/Dummy.pm blib/lib/Big/Dummy.pm
> 	# '
> 	FAILED at test 9

These are harmless.  ExtUtils in pkgsrc perl no longer generates
perllocal.pod entries (as you've noticed) as these entries are useless
in a pkgsrc setting.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>