This is what I saw when building 5.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.0.2
Test numbers have drifted slightly, but the posix and db-tree errors
looks very similar ...
> pragma/warning test 303 ... probably not a big deal
> lib/posix ... fails on test 11, but, this runs OK if you cd t; ./perl
lib/posix.t - what gives?
> lib/db_recno ... fails at test 51 ... not a big deal, according to the
output
> lib/db_btree ... fails at test 0 (and Crashes with a bus error ... I
have CrashReporter messages > for this if anyone's interested)????
>
> running lib/db_btree individually shows that its ok up to test 90.
>
> The actual line that causes the bus error is as follows:
>
> # now clear the hash
> %h = () ;
>
> where %h is a tied hash
On Wednesday, June 13, 2001, at 01:57 am, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
>
> Those failures are 'known ones'. Not that it makes it any better or
> that they shouldn't be fixed, but now we are back at the point Fred
> Sanchez and I recognize. The pragma/warnings one should go away as
> soon as we figure out how to make Mac OS X and PerlIO play together.
> The db-tree is probably a core dump since it fails right before the
> first test (failing at test 0). The posix #10 is a failure related
> to signals-- any known oddities with signal handling?
>
>> pragma/warnings.......PROG:
>> FAILED at test 308
>> lib/db-btree..........FAILED at test 0
>> lib/posix.............FAILED at test 10
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