On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:17:38 +0100, Steve Hay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Hay wrote: > > >Automated smoke report for 5.9.3 patch 25560 > >Mugwump.uk.radan.com: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz(~3391 MHz) (x86/2 > >cpu) > > on MSWin32 - WinXP/.Net SP2 > > using cl version 12.00.8804 > > smoketime 10 hours 6 minutes (average 15 minutes 10 seconds) > > > >Summary: FAIL(F) > > > > pod/pod2usage2.t........................FAILED 2-8 > > > > > This (new) test fails on Win32 because all the tests use a getoutput() > function which does a "forking open" -- that is not supported on Win32 > (even when built with the fork() emulation). > > I guess the easiest thing is just to skip these tests on Win32, unless > you fancy recoding them to use some other technique. Besides that, the test was only passing in harness, not in TEST Revised version sent to perl5-porters. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using Perl 5.6.2, 5.8.0, 5.8.5, & 5.9.2 on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00 & 11.11, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, SuSE 9.2 & 9.3, and Cygwin. http://www.cmve.net/~merijn Smoking perl: http://www.test-smoke.org, perl QA: http://qa.perl.org reports to: [EMAIL PROTECTED], perl-qa@perl.org
