> It's strange that 'make test' did not run. (The matter was the missing perl-binary >in the perl-5.8.0/t - directory ...or what?)
Yes. The odd things is that "make test" should have done that. See the target "_test_prep" in Makefile, the "_test_prep" should get called (mong other things) with "make test". > 99.81 is not bad....What are you thinking: Can I work in a productive environment >with this perl build? The list of failures you are getting is slightly longer than what I got just before 5.8.0 (see pod/perldelta.pod, about line 3655). What you have extra are the DProf.t, io_dir.t, lib/h2xs.t, AnyDBM_File.t, Dirhandle.t, splice.t. Then again, you are not seeing the op/pat.t, op/sprintf.t and op/tr.t failures I did see, which I find kind of odd, since I'm pretty certain that op/tr.t should fail a few subtests because there's code that needs to be written first before the test can ever fully work in EBCDIC... (ditto for pat.t) But yes, I would say that you should be able to work with this Perl. (Hey, there are some Unixes that do not pass 100%...) Also in some cases the tests themselves are to blame, some tests still need porting to z/OS (the h2xs.t is one example, I think) Just be mindful of the errors you got: the list of failures points to the areas (either modules or core functionality) where one needs to tread carefully. > .../ext/Data/Dumper/t/dumper.t 357 8 2.24% 311 314 325 327 > 331 333 337 339 > .../ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.t 18 14 77.78% 5-18 > .../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_dir.t 10 2 20.00% 2-3 > .../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t 5 4 80.00% 2-5 > .../ext/Storable/t/downgrade.t 10 2560 169 10 5.92% 14-15 46-47 78-79 > 110-111 150 161 > .../lib/h2xs.t 6 1536 113 6 5.31% 17 36 55 74 89 108 > .../lib/AnyDBM_File.t 4 1024 12 4 33.33% 3 5-7 > .../lib/DirHandle.t 5 2 40.00% 2-3 > .../lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t 51 10 19.61% 32-33 38-42 45-46 > 49 > .../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t 9 9 100.00% 1-9 > .../lib/Tie/Array/splice.t 0 9 ?? ?? % ?? > uni/fold.t 780 6 0.77% 61 169 196 661 > 710-711 > 72 tests and 186 subtests skipped. > Failed 12/523 test scripts, 97.71% okay. 75/40471 subtests failed, 99.81% okay. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
