Thanks, Slaven. I've filed this for future reference: https://github.com/cpan-testers/CPAN-Reporter/issues/78
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Slaven Rezic <sla...@rezic.de> wrote: > David Golden <x...@xdg.me> writes: > > > Hi, Nigel. > > > > Here's another odd failure: > > > > > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/cd9352da-4607-11e6-9fc5-14bfbd15da07 > > > > Output from '/usr/bin/make test': > > > > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/home/njh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.0/bin/perl" > > "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef > > *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t > > Could not execute (/home/njh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.0/bin/perl > > t/recurse.t): open3: exec of > > /home/njh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.0/bin/perl t/recurse.t failed at > > > /home/njh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.0/lib/site_perl/5.18.0/TAP/Parser/Iterator/Process.pm > > line 165. > > Makefile:899: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed > > make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 7 > > Unfortunately the 5.18.0 version of IPC::Open3 does not output the value > of $! in case of an exec failure (see > > https://metacpan.org/source/RJBS/perl-5.18.0/ext/IPC-Open3/lib/IPC/Open3.pm#L277 > ). > > I've seen similar errors where the $! value was "Argument list too > long". This usually happens if PERL5LIB is too long and exceeds the > environment's maximum length. However, on current Unix systems this is > typically more than 100kB, and PERL5LIB in the problematic report is far > from this limit. > > > > > Could you please see if this is repeatable? I can't think of any reason > > why this would be happening only for some tests. > > > > If this is widespread/common/random, I wonder if CPAN::Reporter et al. > need > > to try to detect this error and not send a report. > > I do this (sort of) in my smoker wrapper: if a test report matches > > m{Could not execute .* open3: exec of .* failed: Argument list too > long at .*TAP/Parser/Iterator/Process.pm} > > then it will not be sent to metabase. > > Regards, > Slaven > > -- > Slaven Rezic - slaven <at> rezic <dot> de > BBBike - route planner for cyclists in Berlin > WWW version: http://www.bbbike.de > Perl/Tk version for Unix and Windows: http://bbbike.sourceforge.net > -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC/GitHub: @xdg
