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• I wish I could say all is well, but... (Score:2)

  by bart (450) <bart.lateur@pandora.be> on 2006.12.23 17:34 (#52483) Journal

  I've tried test COSIMO/Win32-API-0.46.tar.gz in the CPAN shell on the two platforms I have available, and it kind of works... but both seem to fall over a secundary test somewhere. The same one.

  1. ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 817 (Mar 20 2006) + MinGW gcc 3.2.3. ActivePerl depends on ActivePerl::Config to dynamically override settings in Config.

     C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, '..
     \blib\lib', '..\blib\arch')" t/*.t
     t/02_Callback....ok 1/8# Compiler name:cl
     # Compiler version:12
     # $^E=Het systeem kan de opgegeven omgevingsoptie niet vinden
     t/02_Callback....dubious
             Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
     DIED. FAILED test 8
             Failed 1/8 tests, 87.50% okay
     Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
     t/02_Callback.t    5  1280     8    2  25.00%  8
     Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/8 subtests failed, 87.50% okay.
     NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x5'
     Stop.
       nmake test -- OK

     Note that despite the failed test, nmake still says "OK".

     And notice how it goes searching for the wrong compiler: "cl", not "gcc", as perl -V:cc does say:

     cc='gcc';

  2. PXPerl 5.8.7 + MinGW gcc 3.2.3

     D:\PXPerl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, '
     ..\blib\lib', '..\blib\arch')" t/*.t
     t/02_Callback....ok 1/8# Compiler name:icl
     # Compiler version:0
     # $^E=
     Free to wrong pool 222778 not e58b2778, <DATA> line 164.
     t/02_Callback....dubious
             Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500)
             after all the subtests completed successfully
     Failed Test     Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
     ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------
     t/02_Callback.t    5  1280     8    0   0.00%  ??
     1 subtest skipped.
     Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 0/8 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
     NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0x5'
     Stop.
       D:\PXPerl\bin\nmake.EXE test -- OK

     Again, final verdict is "OK", despite a "freed to the wrong pool" error, which sounds very serious to me. Also notice the message "Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500) after all the subtests completed successfully".

     And, once more, the compiler it tried to use is wrong again: "icl" — most likely the compiler PXPerl was built with (an Intel compiler, IIRC), but not the compiler that perl -V:cc reports back ("gcc").

     There sure is a pattern there: it seems to me like something here is trying too hard to find out the "truth" about the C compiler, ignoring the more obvious results.

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by cosimo (4138)

    Hi Bart, this is interesting. Thanks for your time.

    • ActivePerl 5.8.8 + Gcc

      AFAIK, ActivePerl comes compiled by MSVC6, which is cl.exe version 12, but you are using with gcc. Correct?

      In the Callback tests, which btw fail unless you have MSVC6, I needed a way to check the compiler and I used $Config{ccname} and $Config{ccversion} instead of only using $Config{cc}, because I only must distinguish between MSVC 6 and 7+.

      Can you report your cc, ccname and ccversion variables? Or better, file a bug on