Thanks, Craig.

I know this happened last time I ran some tests, so I've started
tests on several more servers (Alphas)

I'll keep you posted.

Carl Friedberg
(212) 798-0718
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The Elias Book of Baseball Records
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:craigbe...@mac.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 10:07 PM
> To: Carl Friedberg
> Cc: vmsperl@perl.org (vmsperl@perl.org)
> Subject: Re: perl 5.18.0 RC1
> 
> 
> On May 12, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Carl Friedberg <friedb...@exs.esb.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Craig,
> >
> > my first cut at 18.0
> 
> Thanks for testing, Carl.  And the rest of you losing sleep because you don't
> know how Perl 5.18.0 will work in your environment with your preferred
> configuration running your favorite extensions have nothing between you
> and a great night's sleep except for downloading, building, and installing the
> first (and possibly final) release candidate, available from:
> 
> https://metacpan.org/release/rjbs/perl-5.18.0-RC1/
> 
> or
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.18.0-RC1/
> 
> > Anything you would like me to pursue?
> 
> It's not up to me to say what's important to you.  Generally core tests would
> be more important than module tests, and module tests that are distributed
> with the core (starting with dist/) would be more important than module
> tests from CPAN (starting with cpan/).  From your list, the ones starting with
> comp/ and op/ would probably benefit from a closer look.
> 
> > Itanium RX2600 (same as you, I believe)
> > $ cc/version
> > HP C V7.3-018 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.4
> >
> > $ show system/noproc
> > OpenVMS V8.4  on node TITAND   12-MAY-2013 13:30:24.27   Uptime  1
> 21:47:08
> >
> > Failed 34 tests out of 2164, 98.43% okay.
> >        ../cpan/Archive-Extract/t/01_Archive-Extract.t
> >        ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/03_CPANPLUS-Internals-Source.t
> >        ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/04_CPANPLUS-Module.t
> >        ../cpan/CPANPLUS/t/20_CPANPLUS-Dist-MM.t
> >        ../cpan/Config-Perl-V/t/10_base.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/INSTALL_BASE.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/PL_FILES.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/basic.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/miniperl.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/pm_to_blib.t
> >        ../cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/t/xs.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/PL_files.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/compat.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/install.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/install_extra_target.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/manifypods.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/runthrough.t
> >        ../cpan/Module-Build/t/tilde.t
> >        ../cpan/autodie/t/recv.t
> >        ../dist/Carp/t/Carp.t
> >        ../dist/ExtUtils-Install/t/Install.t
> >        ../dist/ExtUtils-Install/t/InstallWithMM.t
> >        ../dist/ExtUtils-Install/t/Installapi2.t
> >        ../dist/ExtUtils-Install/t/can_write_dir.t
> >        ../dist/Net-Ping/t/510_ping_udp.t
> >        ../ext/Pod-Html/t/cache.t
> >        ../ext/VMS-Stdio/t/vms_stdio.t
> >        ../lib/perl5db.t
> >        comp/parser.t
> >        op/coreamp.t
> >        op/kill0.t
> >        op/stat.t
> >        porting/pod_rules.t
> >        porting/podcheck.t
> 
> With
> 
> $ cc/version
> HP C V7.3-020 on OpenVMS IA64 V8.4
> 
> with update 8.0, on a disk with the following attributes:
> 
>   Volume Status:  ODS-5, subject to mount verification, protected subsystems
>       enabled, write-through XFC caching enabled, write-through XQP caching
>       enabled, hard links enabled, special files enabled.
> 
> from a non-privileged account, I get:
> 
> cpan/CPANPLUS/t/03_CPANPLUS-Internals-Source .................. FAILED at
> test 28
> cpan/ExtUtils-Constant/t/Constant ............................. FAILED at 
> test 27
> cpan/Module-Build/t/compat .................................... FAILED at 
> test 8
> cpan/Module-Build/t/debug ..................................... FAILED at 
> test 1
> cpan/Module-Build/t/install_extra_target ...................... FAILED at 
> test 4
> cpan/Module-Build/t/install ................................... 
> FAILED--expected 35
> tests, saw 1
> cpan/Module-Build/t/manifypods ................................ 
> FAILED--expected 21
> tests, saw 2
> cpan/Module-Build/t/PL_files .................................. 
> FAILED--expected 8
> tests, saw 0
> cpan/Module-Build/t/properties/share_dir ...................... 
> FAILED--expected
> 23 tests, saw 16
> cpan/Module-Build/t/runthrough ................................ FAILED at 
> test 13
> cpan/Module-Build/t/tilde ..................................... FAILED at 
> test 16
> ext/Pod-Html/t/cache .......................................... FAILED at 
> test 8
> ext/Pod-Html/t/crossref ....................................... FAILED at 
> test 1
> ext/Pod-Html/t/htmldir1 ....................................... FAILED at 
> test 1
> ext/Pod-Html/t/htmldir3 ....................................... FAILED at 
> test 1
> lib/perl5db ................................................... FAILED at 
> test 22
> Failed 16 tests out of 2171, 99.26% okay.
> 
> which is quite a bit better than yours, but a few more than I expected, mainly
> because Pod::Html has not been failing recently.  I have no explanation for
> why it's so different from yours.  There must be some differences in
> privileges, quotas, volume characteristics, external utilities installed 
> (such as
> tar or vmstar), etc.
> ________________________________________
> Craig A. Berry
> mailto:craigbe...@mac.com
> 
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