Re: maint-5.10-1196-ga8a43ff on VMS status

[John E. Malmberg]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
With everything default except -Duseithreads, I see:
Failed 6 tests out of 1564, 99.62% okay.
      [-.lib.CPANPLUS.Dist.Build.t]02_CPANPLUS-Dist-Build.t
      [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]19_CPANPLUS-Dist.t
      [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]basic.t
      [-.lib.Module.Build.t]compat.t
      [-.lib.Module.Build.t]ext.t
      op/magic.t

Here's what I know about what fixes these.


      [-.lib.CPANPLUS.Dist.Build.t]02_CPANPLUS-Dist-Build.t
      [-.lib.CPANPLUS.t]19_CPANPLUS-Dist.t

These require the integration of 
<http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/41cb7b2> from blead plus 
the patch to IPC::Cmd at 
<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=46288> being rolled into 
a release and working its way downstream.


      [-.lib.ExtUtils.t]basic.t

This is fixed in EU::MM 6.51_03, though that has a couple of new and 
different failures that will hopefully be sorted out shortly.


      [-.lib.Module.Build.t]compat.t
      [-.lib.Module.Build.t]ext.t

These are resolved in the M::B development stream (specifically at 
<http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=42724>) but await 
percolation through a release, blead, and thus to maint.  Should we go 
ahead and put a development snapshot of M::B into blead?


      op/magic.t

Minor collateral damage from converting the test to t/test.pl, fixed in 
blead at <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae8ade6>.

magic.t in my tests is leaving behind a logical name named "foo" which 
is causing failures in the CPANPLUS tests as it prevents access to a 
directory named foo that they use.

I think that some of my patches to allow the ExtUtils modules to work 
with the Extended Character sets on ODS-5 volumes and the UNIX report 
modes have not yet made it into the CPAN versions.

-John
wb8...@qsl.net
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