Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.

use Perl

All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

More news sir! More | Login | Reply

The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to use the classic discussion system instead. If you login, you can remember this preference.

Perl 5.8 tests (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603)

On my Solaris 9 box, the lib/Config test went into some sort of endless loop which resulted in an "out of memory!" error. I just skipped the tests and installed it anyway.
My point is, I think the tests themselves may be broken.
- Re:Perl 5.8 tests (Score:2)
  
  by rafael (2125)
  
  IIRC, lib/Config.t was added in the test suite just a few weeks before the release of 5.8.0. Thus it wasn't extensively tested ; -- however I didn't heard about this kind of failure. If some tests are broken (reproducibly broken, it may be sensitive to the load of your system or to other parameters) you may want to help to fix them.
man fucked in RH8 (Score:1)

by Dom2 (2981)

It's intentional. If you want it fixed, do "export LESS=-R". See the release notes [ffii.org] for the latest groff.
At some point, I will figure out why this doesn't happen by default.
And of course, it's all locales causing the problems at the heart of it all. I could actually care less, but the fucking things break the sort order of ls. How crap is that?
-Dom
- Re:man fucked in RH8 (Score:1)
  
  by gav (2710)
  
  Somehow:
  export LANG="POSIX"
  fixes it too
  My fix was a little more drastic. I am installing 7.3 :)

Get More Comments

Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.