On Monday 25 September 2006 02:41, Florian Scharinger wrote: > I have troubles building Test-Simple-0.64 on a standard SL3 machine: > > perl Makefile.PL > make > make test > > several threading related tests fail, e.g.: > --------- > t/threads.................Thread 1 terminated abnormally: lock can only be > used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394. > Thread 2 terminated abnormally: lock can only be used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394. > Thread 3 terminated abnormally: lock can only be used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394. > Thread 4 terminated abnormally: lock can only be used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394. > Thread 5 terminated abnormally: lock can only be used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394. > lock can only be used on shared values at > /home/florian/tmp/Test-Simple-0.64/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 1352. > # Looks like your test died before it could output anything. > t/threads.................dubious > Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) > DIED. FAILED tests 1-6 > Failed 6/6 tests, 0.00% okay > --------- > > Same for the tests diag, overload_threads and sort_bug. > > I tried to find solutions for this prob on many newsgroups, google, etc, > however just found a couple of similar reports, but no solutions. Please > find perl information below, I would appreciate it very much if somebody > could help me here, since it's a complete show stopper for my project > currently.
> -bash-2.05b$ perl -V > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: > usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define > usemultiplicity=define Schwern may have to confirm, but I believe that threads were so broken in 5.8.0 that he decided not to support them with Test::Builder at all. Is there a possibility for you to upgrade to 5.8.8 (or at least 5.8.1)? -- c
