On Thu Oct 16 04:39:06 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > not ok 3 - examples/library/pcre.pir > > # Failed test 'examples/library/pcre.pir' > # at t/examples/library.t line 67. > # got: 'asdf =~ /as/ > # 1 match(es): > # ' > # expected: 'asdf =~ /as/ > # 1 match(es): > # as > # ' [snip] > > So far I have not been able to identify any files which changed > during this interval and which are obvious candidates for causing > this bug.
Here is more data concerning the above test failure. Between r31872 (Oct 10) and r31967 (Oct 14), I used 'apt-get' to install 4 additional Debian packages on the Linux box on which these tests were run. The packages were: ii libgmp3-dev 4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library developers ii libgmp3-doc 4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library example co ii libgmp3c2 4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library ii libgmpxx4 4.2.1+dfsg-4 Multiprecision arithmetic library (C++ bindi I installed these packages because on Linux, Configure.pl was telling me in step auto::gmp that it could not locate GMP. So I was never building Parrot with GMP. After installing these four packages, Configure.pl told me it was now locating GMP. But it was after this install that the test in t/examples/library.t began to fail. So I called 'apt-get remove' to remove the 4 packages above. At this point the test began to pass in both r31967 and HEAD. So, can anyone speculate as to why installation of these 4 packages would cause a failure in a test of PCRE? Thank you very much. kid51
