On Sat Oct 18 09:39:52 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu Oct 16 04:39:06 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] > > 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? >
Any thoughts on this?
