Re: ActivePerl build failures

On 23/02/12 11:04, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:40:09PM +0000, Martin J. Evans wrote:
>> I've applied Dave's patch and tested in on Windows with Perl 5.8.9
>> and it now compiles without errors.
>>
>> Also the patch from Manoj Kumar is applied and this fixes gofer tests.
>
> Great. Thanks Martin.
>
>> I'd suggest you (Tim) did one more development release with the
>> changes file amended to move the 2 changes post 15148 into a new
>> versions and I will test it on previously failing Windows platforms
>> and whatever other platforms I can find. In the mean time I'd also
>> suggest we did not apply any more changes.
>
> *nods*
>
> I've uploaded DBI-1.617_904.tar.gz
>
>> On the Windows smokers question, I tried that a few years ago and
>> found it a PITA eventually bringing my machine to a stand still. To
>> be honest I found smoke testing on Linux/AIX/Solaris a PITA too but
>> just not as much as Windows. Too many modules prompt even under
>> smoke testing or have incorrect dependencies so my exclusion list
>> just kept growing and growing. I just looked and I have 32263 smoke
>> reports but you've no idea what problems were caused generating them
>> and I eventually gave up - I really don't know how bingos (Chris
>> Williams) etc manage to generate so many. Personally, I'd change
>> cpan shell to send installation results by default but I don't
>> really understand the complexities of this (even if they were
>> anonymous).
>
> I'll pass that on.
>
> Tim.

I've tested the following ok:

linux multi-thread 5.10.1
linux !threaded 5.14.2
Windows 7 Strawberry Perl 5.12.1 multi-thread
Windows XP 5.8.9 (compiled by me with MS Vis C)

I didn't report them via CPAN::Reporter as I could not make it build on 5.8.9 Windows and I haven't got time to look into it.

All work and the 2 windows ones didn't used to.

Merijn has tested:

HP-UX 11.31/64 5.14.2 IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64-ld  OK
HP-UX 11.23/64 5.10.1 IA64.ARCHREV_0-LP64 OK
HP-UX 11.11/64 5.10.1 PA-RISC2.0-LP64 OK
HP-UX 11.00/64 5.10.1 PA-RISC2.0 OK
HP-UX 10.20/32 5.8.8 PA-RISC2.0 OK
AIX 5.3.0.0ML12/64 5.10.1 aix-64all OK
Windows7pro/64-SP1 5.12.1 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (Strawberry) OK

Martin
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