Re: how to specify "useithreads" in a distroprefs

08. 06. 2022. u 17:43, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
cpan-testers-discuss piše:

> Hello there,
>
> I've struggling to define distroprefs and include "useithreads" 
> information for a perl that doesn't support it.
>
> If I define it like this:
>
> ---
> comment: Tests hang smoker
> disabled: 1
> match:
>   distribution: ^PRBRENAN/Nasm-X86
>   perlconfig:
>     archname: i386-openbsd
>     osname: openbsd
>     useithreads: null
>
> The distribution is skipped just fine, but then I start to get warning 
> like this one:
>
> validation of distropref 
> '/home/goku/cpan-openbsd-smoker/prefs/PRBRENAN.Nasm-X86.yml'[0] 
> against schema 
> '/home/goku/perl5/lib/perl5/CPAN/Kwalify/distroprefs.yml' failed:   - 
> [/match/perlconfig/useithreads] Non-valid data 'undef', expected text
>
> I already tried to configure like this instead:
>
> ---
> comment: Tests hang smoker
> disabled: 1
> match:
>   distribution: ^PRBRENAN/Nasm-X86
>   perlconfig:
>     archname: i386-openbsd
>     osname: openbsd
>     no_useithreads: defined
>
> But then the distribution is not skipped anymore.
>
> I went through Kwalify documentation, but couldn't figure out where 
> the CPAN distroprefs schema is define so I can figure out how to 
> accomplish both things (skipping the distribution and not getting 
> warnings).
>
Hi Alceu,

I think that

     useithreads: undef

should work, using exactly the string which is returned by

     perl -V:useithreads

Regards, Slaven