Re: Problems with DBI 1.617_903 on MSWin32

On 21/02/12 22:01, Tim Bunce wrote:
> DBI 1.617_903 has a 100% pass rate on everything except MSWin32, where
> there are three reports so far and 100% failure:
>
>      http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.617_903;reports=1;os=mswin32
>
>      Result      Id              OS vers archname                        Perl version
>      FAIL        19976962        5.1     MSWin32-x86-multi-thread        5.12.3
>      UNKNOWN     20072290        5.2     MSWin32-x86-multi-thread        5.10.1
>      UNKNOWN     20005629        5.2     MSWin32-x86-multi-thread        5.12.4
>
> The first report passes all except gofer tests. Those fail with:
>
>      No such directory 'C:strawberrycpanbuildDBI-1.617_903-P91t7htest_output_5384'
>
> which seems rather long and lacking in delimeters.
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/2fb308b8-6c8f-1014-bc6b-040f0163837e
> This problem seems to have existed in DBI 1.617, causing it to always
> fail on MSWin32 (along with an error in t/16destroy.t). DBI 1.616 was ok.

The following rt included a patch to apparently fix that issue - or perhaps it created a new one, or perhaps it did not get in - https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74975

>
> The other two reports are 'UNKNOWN' due to compile-time errors:
>
>      error C2065: 'my_cxtp' : undeclared identifier
>
> which seems clearly related to the recent changes.
>
> Given the minor differences in Perl versions (5.12.3 vs 5.12.4) it seems
> like the "OS vers" (5.1 vs 5.2) may be significant here.
>
>
> Can anyone help with either of these?
>
> Tim.
>
> p.s. Once these are fixed I'll probably release DBI 1.618 without the
> DBIS change as I've not had time to consider that in the detail it needs.

I'll try and run through the machines I have again and take Merijn's response into consideration too.

Martin
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