On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 07:44:14PM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote: > I've been continuing to receive reports (several a day, on average) like > this: > > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/5421bfb0-1e88-11e5-b327-3e6ce14af301 > > ...where the test failures were clearly caused by unsatisfied > prerequisites. It is my understanding that this should not result in a FAIL > report, but rather NA -- any reasonable attempt to run tests and achieve a > PASS should attempt to satisfy prerequisites first.
Here's the full output from running this against a fresh install of 5.8.9. It only differs from stock 5.8.9 in the addition of Expect, CPAN::Reporter, and their pre-reqs: perl-5.8.9/bin/cpan Dist::Zilla::Plugin::StaticInstall 2>&1|tee \ Dist::Zilla::Plugin::StaticInstall.cpan.output http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/private/dist-zilla-plugin-staticinstall.cpan.output Note the "CPAN::Reporter: test results were not valid, Prerequisite missing" line, which is missing from the original report. I don't know whether that line is only ever spat to STDOUT/ERR or whether things were subtlely different in this run. If the latter, I can only assume that something else that I tested shortly before your module was a bit buggy and despite passing its tests (and hence getting installed) it broke the toolchain. Sorry about that. Absent evidence to the contrary, I'm going to put this down to something else breaking the toolchain, and you're the one who noticed because your code is toolchain-ish and so interacted with it. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" On the bright side, if sendmail is tied up routing spam and pointless uknot posts, it's not waving its arse around saying "root me!" -- Peter Corlett, in uknot
