On 2008–06–03, at 23:14, H.Merijn Brand wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:29:46 +0200, Dominic Dunlop
> <shouldbedomo@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2008–06–03, at 15:17, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
>>
>>> I think the '?'s should be either 'F' or 'X' here. No idea as yet  
>>> why
>>> they are '?'
>>
>>
>> You can specify a maximum wallclock time for a smoke test. '?' is the
>> reported status for configurations that did not finish or did not get
>> run because the smoke was still running when the guillotine  
>> descended.
>> Is that what happened during the test in question?
>>
>> See "killtime" on configsmoke.3 man page.
>
> But that would leave you with *one* '?' in the report. I've had many
> of those. Bram's report had two '?'s


Good point. A bit of trawling shows Steve Hay was getting (nothing  
but) consecutive '?'s in early January reports from Test::Smoke  
v1.20.07 build 1123; he upgraded to Test::Smoke v1.29_60 build 1155,  
and the problem went away. However, as Bram's report is from  
Test::Smoke v1.32 build 1176, that's probably not the answer -- unless  
there was a problem that got fixed and  then regressed.

See <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2008/01/msg52888.html 
 >, <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2008/01/msg52910.html 
 >, abd <http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/2008/01/msg52938.html 
 >. Steve, can you throw any light on what was going wrong?

[Note to self: upgrade your Test::Smoke.]
-- 
Dominic Dunlop