At 10:05 PM -0700 6/14/02, Bohan, Larry wrote:
>Scratch this report.  I re-ran this build, just now, from scratch.
>(freshly init'ed disk) and I did not see this failure repeated.
>
>a from-scratch build is what I did originally (same acct, same evirons)
>so I'm not sure what would account for the HeisenBug quality of this failure.

The lib/ExtUtils/t tests really have to be run as a group.  The first
one sets up quite a few temporary files, the middle ones do the
actual testing, and the last one cleans up.  Any interruption at any
step or any failed clean-up from a previous run could bollox up the
whole batch.  I have not been seeing the failure you originally noted
when rerunning the entire test suite, so that might have been a
result of running a test by itself without its brethren.  You can run
the whole set like this:

$ set default [.t]
$ perl test -"v" [-.lib.extutils.t]*.t

though you'd need to make sure in this case that "perl" points to the
just-built perl in your source tree.
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