I don't know if this is helpful, but I've been seeing widespread issues with FreeBSD and NetBSD as well lately. I've been receiving a lot of FAIL reports containing segmentation faults from FreeBSD and NetBSD that look similar to the OpenBSD issues, for example:
FreeBSD (BinGOs): http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/eef9bd38-6704-11e6-ab41-c893a58a4b8c http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/8665c62c-73c0-11e6-8807-814d1da4c10f NetBSD (Nigel Horne): http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/8d46746e-73b1-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/42d3ed70-73ad-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ae162bf6-73ae-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/3ec4326c-73ad-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/98868544-73b1-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/a34aa63c-73b0-11e6-b850-10220ec14a5e On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss <cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org> wrote: > Hello Slaven, > > It is a possibility that the default perl on OpenBSD is causing the issues. > > I won't say that is heavily patched, but there is obviously differences > from standard interpreter. In initial attempts with OpenBSD (5.8) I found > that that I was unable to compile any perl with perlbrew since all of them > failed the tests. In this thread here: installation of Perl on OpenBSD > 5.8 with perlbrew fails due crypt.h > <https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg142376.html> there > are more details about that. > > > [image: image] > <https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg142376.html> > > > > > > installation of Perl on OpenBSD 5.8 with perlbrew fails ... > <https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg142376.html> > Hi there, My name is Alceu and I'm a newbie with OpenBSD. I hope I reached > the right mailing list to ask about compiling Perl with perlbrew on > OpenBSD. Advertisin... > Visualizar em www.mail-archiv... > <https://www.mail-archive.com/misc%40openbsd.org/msg142376.html> > Visualizado por Yahoo > > > Of course I can try to compile the interpreter without perlbrew, but that > leads to the questions: are we looking for to validate CPAN modules against > the interpreter shipped with OpenBSD or the standard perl? > > ------------------------------ > *De:* Slaven Rezic <sla...@rezic.de> > *Para:* Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss < > cpan-testers-discuss@perl.org> > *Cc:* Karen Etheridge <p...@froods.org>; Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. < > glasswal...@yahoo.com.br> > *Enviadas:* Domingo, 4 de Setembro de 2016 12:11 > *Assunto:* Re: Your smoke testing reports > > Hi Alceu, > > it looks like you're using OpenBSD's system perl (PERL=/usr/bin/perl > appears in the reports). A possibility is that this perl is heavily > patched and now broken for even simple things like reading a META.yml > file. If this is the case, then it would be good to find out, maybe with > the help of the OpenBSD guys. > > Maybe the reports would be better if you would compile perl yourself? > > As for checking reports: I am doing this, at least the non-pass reports, > and have some scripts to help in this workflow. One of the scripts is > this one: > https://github.com/eserte/srezic-misc/blob/master/ > scripts/ctr_good_or_invalid.pl > I can give you assistance if you want to go this way (but it's still > time-consuming!). > > Regards, > Slaven > >
