Hi Craig,
Thanks. I've now re-run all of the 58 failed tests using the appropriate
syntax.
The results aren't particularly meaningful to me, and I'm assuming no one else
is likely to want to see them.
Perhaps this syntax could be clarified in the README.VMS file (for the benefit
of those who are only minimally
conversant with unix file name syntax).
Thanks for all your help.
-- Ed
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From: Craig Berry <craigbe...@mac.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2021 6:38 AM
To: Miller, Edward S. <e...@slac.stanford.edu>; vmsperl@perl.org
<vmsperl@perl.org>
Subject: Re: Experience installing on Alpha VMS 8.3
> On Feb 15, 2021, at 10:47 PM, Miller, Edward S. via vmsperl
> <vmsperl@perl.org> wrote:
>
> During the run of all tests these two examples appear as
> lib/warnings ................................................... FAILED at
> test 710
> t/io/socketpair ................................................
> FAILED--unexpected output at test 0
Those paths are relative to the top-level directory.
> In the list of all failed tests at the end of the run of all tests they
> appear as
> ../lib/warnings.t
> io/socketpair.t
Those paths are relative to the t/ directory, and that's what you'll need for
running tests individually.
> The command
> $ @[.vms]test .EXE "" -"v" [.io]socketpair.t
> reruns that test with more detailed output. Using similar syntax for all
> failing tests that are reported
> with names specified as "t/..." also reruns the corresponding failing test.
>
> I didn't find the proper command to rerun the test on the warnings.t file (or
> any of the other test names that did
> not match the "t/..." syntax).
This oughta do it:
$ @[.vms]test .exe -"v" "../lib/warnings.t"
Apparently using VMS syntax filenames no longer works when running tests
outside of the t/ hierarchy, so if you gave it this:
$ @[.vms]test .exe -"v" [-.lib]warnings.t
it would try to run the mongrel filename t/[-.lib]warnings.t. Not sure when it
started doing that, but if you give it exactly what's in the list of failed
tests it should still work.
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Craig A. Berry
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