Re: Building on RH 8.0 using UML

> > > I tried a test run of 5.8.x on it and all combinations failed  on 
> > > op/alarm.t.
> > This is not too surprising.  UML has to do some weird things with
> > timers to function.  Can you isolate which test is failing?
> Yes, one of the runs said:
>  Tests start here:
> PERLIO = stdio  # Failed at op/alarm.t line 31
> #      got ''
> # expected 'ALARM!
> # '
> # Failed at op/alarm.t line 32

What happens if you run op/alarm.t manually?

./perl -Ilib t/op/alarm.t

The test is doing a busy wait, 1 while (time - $start_time < 6), and I
guess it's not actually waiting.

Another thing to try is to make sure the above busy wait actually
takes a few seconds to complete.

-R