Re: "make test" fails installing DBI-1.632 (linux, perl5.8.8)

Yeah, I agree,  it would save time if there was a check during make test
itself and a die with a version incompatible message.


Carl Furst
CMS Developer
MLB Advanced Media





On 1/8/15, 11:20 AM, "John Wiersba" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Adding dbi-users
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: John Wiersba <[email protected]>
>Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:19 AM
>Subject: Re: "make test" fails installing DBI-1.632 (linux, perl5.8.8)
>To: "Furst, Carl" <[email protected]>
>
>Thanks, Carl.  Well, I see that now, but I did not see it before, even
>after looking for it.  And it's only a warning; it did not cause a
>failure in the Makefile.PL step (exit status = 0).  Additionally, it's
>nowhere near the point of failure, which occurred in make test.
>
>Maybe I'm dreaming, but if the wrong version of Test::Simple will
>cause test failures, then detecting the wrong version should trigger a
>failure and it should be loud.  I spent probably an hour of time
>scanning the docs for any mention of the problem, debugging the
>failing test, then guessing the cause (maybe there's a more recent
>version of Test::More needed to supply the note() function), and
>searching on google, to end up deducing that Test::Simple needed to be
>updated.
>
>Or, alternatively, some comment in INSTALL or README.md mentioning the
>correlation of the symptoms (failed test) with the version of
>Test::Simple installed.
>
>On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Furst, Carl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But it did say:
>>
>> Warning: prerequisite Test::Simple 0.90 not found. We have 0.62.
>>
>>
>> Which is  the same thing, really.
>>
>>
>> Carl Furst
>> CMS Developer
>> MLB Advanced Media
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/8/15, 10:48 AM, "John Wiersba" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>After installing the latest version of Test::Simple, all tests passed,
>>>and the installation (and a test script) succeeded.  Problem #3 is
>>>that the make (or make test) didn't fail with something like
>>>"dependency on Test::Simple 0.90 not satisfied".
>>>
>>>On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Tim Bunce <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:50:52PM -0500, John Wiersba wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I see in META.{json,yaml} that a later version of Test::Simple is
>>>>> required, but that doesn't seem to cause a noticable error message or
>>>>> abort the Makefile.PL/make/make test process.  Installing the latest
>>>>> version of Test::Simple allows "make test" to succeed.
>>>>
>>>> So there's no problem now? Or did that just fix t/06attr.t?
>>>>
>>>> Tim.
>>
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