RE: Compaq Testdrive

Michael G Schwern:
# I completely forgot I had this.
#
# Compaq has a program called "Testdrive" where they offer free accounts
# on a VERY wide range of machines & OS's.  Tru64, Caldera, Debian,
# Redhat, Kondara, OpenVMS, Mandrake, SuSE, Turbo, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
# Beowulf, iPAQ on Alpha, x86 and even ARM.
#
# If somebody's feeling ambicious, setup smoking across all the
# machines.  I'll try talking to the Testdrive admins, they may be nice
# enough to install the necessary libraries across all machines.
# (If someone could give me a list of the basic needs).
#
#
# I've got an account (just ask, they give you one) for people to play
# with.  Further information can be had here:
# http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/cgi-bin/perl-qa-wiki.cgi?CompaqTestDrive

I've signed up for myself and I'm gonna try to set this up.  Here's
`make test' on an IA-64 box running (IIRC) Debian:

bash-2.05$ uname -a
Linux spe166 2.4.4-SMP #1 SMP Mon May 28 23:00:31 GMT 2001 ia64 unknown
bash-2.05$ make test
perl t/harness
t/op/basic......ok, 1/2 skipped:  label constants unimplemented in
assembler
t/op/integer....ok
t/op/number.....ok 6/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
'
t/op/number.....ok 8/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
'
t/op/number.....ok 10/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
'
t/op/number.....ok 12/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
'
t/op/number.....ok 14/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
'
t/op/number.....ok 16/23#     Failed test (Parrot/Test.pm at line 74)
#          got: 'ok 1
'
#     expected: 'ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
'
t/op/number.....ok 23/23# Looks like you failed 6 tests of 23.
t/op/number.....dubious
        Test returned status 6 (wstat 1536, 0x600)
Bareword found where operator expected at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/ia64-linux/_h2ph_pre.ph line 20, near
"&9223372036854775807L"
        (Missing operator before L?)
DIED. FAILED tests 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17
        Failed 6/23 tests, 73.91% okay (-2 skipped tests: 15 okay,
65.22%)
t/op/string.....ok, 1/5 skipped:  I'm unable to write it!
t/op/trans......ok
Failed Test   Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
t/op/number.t    6  1536    23    6  26.09%  7 9 11 13 15 17
4 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/5 test scripts, 80.00% okay. 6/74 subtests failed, 91.89% okay.
make: *** [test] Error 29

There's a bit of a challenge with setting up automated smoking--outbound
connections aren't allowed.  That probably means you have to upload the
parrot-latest tarball via FTP and then use Telnet to issue the commands
(or at least the command to start smoking) for automated periodic
smokes.  Eek.

--Brent Dax
[email protected]

They *will* pay for what they've done.