Re: DBI package problem?

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:57:01PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote:
>    > [1][email protected] wrote:
> 
>    >> In practice this results in circa 70% of smoke testers running the
>    >>  module with DBI installed.
>    >> The remaining 30% however, fails with this error:
> 
>    > Where do you get the 70%/30% ratio from?
> 
>    state, version, count(*)
>    'fail', '1.609', 44
>    'na', '1.609', 16
>    'na', '1.611', 1
>    'pass', '1.609', 1153
>    'pass', '1.611', 101
>    'unknown', '1.609', 11
>    'unknown', '1.611', 1
> 
>    4% (rounded up) of failures for fails/passes in 1.609 discounting nas.
> 
>    The na status are all perls too old (not at least 5.8.1).
> 
>    Of the fails in 1.609 most are test failures (after compilation) and for problems Tim has addressed in
>    1.611.
> 
>    Of all the failures in 1.609 (44 of them) I got fed up of checking them after doing over half of them
>    and finding no lack of compiler problems.

>    [...] but I don't as yet see any evidence that 30% of build failures are down to lack of a
>    compiler.

Thanks for looking into it Martin.

Tim.