Re: Put pass/fail/incomplete in the subject line

[email protected] ("H.Merijn Brand")
Newsgroups perl.daily-build
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed 02 Oct 2002 21:38, Michael G Schwern <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:14:35PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > As a side note, can you have another look at the cygwin smoke failures for
> > 
> >     lib/Test/Harness/t/strap-analyze.....FAILED at test 2
> >     lib/warnings.........................FAILED at test 410
> > 
> > which is a line-ending mismatch in taint mode.
> > Currently cygwin has other tests failing, but above two have appeared
> > somewhere else too, but I can't remember where.
> 
> Those have been appearing and reappearing for months now.  I have no idea
> what's causing them, but it's not a bug in those modules, they just happen
> to be exercising the bug.  I don't know if the strings actually have the
> wrong line-ending style on them or if the $ regex is mismatching.  Beyond
> that, I don't know how to diagnose it.

A new (temporary/local) flag that will

	s/[\r\n]+/\n/g

on both strings before comparing?

I agree that this is not a good /solution/, but we know that these tests will
pass in normal conditions, and if we do nothing about it, we will never get
any 'O's from smoke on cygwin again.

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