Re: bug in lang/perl5 5.18.0?

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2013, at 20:47:07 -0400, Amitai Schlair wrote:
>OS X 10.6.8, Perl 5.16.3: all tests pass
>OS X 10.6.8, Perl 5.18.0: all tests pass
>
>NetBSD 6.1, Perl 5.16.3: 1 test script with a failed test case
>NetBSD 6.1, Perl 5.18.0: 21 test scripts with at least one failed test case
>
>So that's a big regression, and supports my suspicion that Perl is
>doing something wrong (which ikiwiki tikis, I mean tickles). I can't
>look at this more right now, but here's the log from that last run:

On 5.2_STABLE/i386, I'm seeing the following test failures with
Perl 5.18.0:

Failed 21 tests out of 2322, 99.10% okay.
        ../cpan/Encode/t/CJKT.t
        ../cpan/Encode/t/at-cn.t
        ../cpan/Encode/t/perlio.t
        ../cpan/Pod-Simple/t/corpus.t
        ../cpan/Pod-Simple/t/pulltitl.t
        ../cpan/Text-Tabs/t/Tabs-ElCid.t
        ../cpan/Text-Tabs/t/Wrap-JLB.t
        ../cpan/podlators/t/man.t
        op/bop.t
        re/fold_grind.t
        re/pat_rt_report.t
        re/pat_rt_report_thr.t
        re/regex_sets_compat.t
        re/regexp.t
        re/regexp_noamp.t
        re/regexp_notrie.t
        re/regexp_qr.t
        re/regexp_qr_embed.t
        re/regexp_qr_embed_thr.t
        re/regexp_trielist.t
        uni/overload.t

This is curious given the separate report[1] that seemed to imply a
5.1_STABLE/i386 environment only had one test failure. (I have the
log on hand if anyone would like it, but I don't have anywhere to
post it online.)

Regards,

Dave