Re: lib/math/bigint/t/mbi_rand needs larger PERL_MBX_SIZE

2005-08-23 Thread Peter Prymmer
Another approach to consider is that one could have the script lib/math/bigint/t/mbi_rand.t look at the value of $ENV{'PERL_MBX_SIZE'} and not run the particular test if it is not large enough. That way no failure is seen for folks who do not have the logical set big enough. A message that

Re: lib/math/bigint/t/mbi_rand needs larger PERL_MBX_SIZE

2005-08-23 Thread John E. Malmberg
Craig A. Berry wrote: At 11:20 PM -0400 8/22/05, John E. Malmberg wrote: snip You're really better off just changing all the print statements of the form: print foo, \n; to print foo . \n; That way you'll have a single I/O that won't generate a record boundary in the mailbox underlying the

lib/math/bigint/t/mbi_rand needs larger PERL_MBX_SIZE

2005-08-22 Thread John E. Malmberg
The test lib/math/bigint/t/mbi_rand needs a larger PERL_MBX_SIZE than the default of 512 bytes. A setting of 1024 seems to make the test pass. This logical name needs to be set before running the test, so it either needs to be put somewhere in [.vms]test.com or in the TEST perl script that