Bug #113818 for List-MoreUtils: tests fail when run against default RHEL-7 (OEL7) packages

Fri Apr 15 14:48:20 2016 jason.vas.dias [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

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tests fail when run against default RHEL-7 (OEL7) packages

When building List::MoreUtils with CPAN, on an as-installed Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 7 server, these tests fail: <quote><pre> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/pureperl/*.t xt/*.t t/pureperl/ab.t ......... ok t/pureperl/Functions.t .. 1/? # Failed test 'is_dying()' # at t/lib/LMU/Test/Functions.pm line 322. # Failed test 'is_dying()' # at t/lib/LMU/Test/Functions.pm line 327. # Failed test 'is_dying()' # at t/lib/LMU/Test/Functions.pm line 349. # Failed test 'is_dying()' # at t/lib/LMU/Test/Functions.pm line 983. # Failed test 'is_dying()' # at t/lib/LMU/Test/Functions.pm line 1026. # Looks like you failed 5 tests of 3465. t/pureperl/Functions.t .. Dubious, test returned 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500) Failed 5/3465 subtests (less 54 skipped subtests: 3406 okay) t/pureperl/Import.t ..... ok t/pureperl/XS.t ......... ok Test Summary Report ------------------- t/pureperl/Functions.t (Wstat: 1280 Tests: 3465 Failed: 5) Failed tests: 126-127, 132, 309, 317 Non-zero exit status: 5 Files=4, Tests=3468, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.15 usr 0.01 sys + 0.38 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.56 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/4 test programs. 5/3468 subtests failed. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 REHSACK/List-MoreUtils-0.413.tar.gz /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK </pre></quote> Could it be a problem with the installed perl / List::Utils versions ? : $ rpm -q perl perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-5.16.3-286.el7.x86_64 perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.27-248.el7.x86_64 If so, this should be detected during configuration / specified in package requirements. I'm trying to use Net::IMAP::Client, which depends on it. Is this package actively maintained ?

Fri Apr 15 14:54:13 2016 REHSACK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Would you please be so kind and execute $ perl -Mblib -MList::MoreUtils=insert_after -lE 'say List::MoreUtils->VERSION;&insert_after( sub { }, 4711, "13" )' and paste the result here?

Fri Apr 15 14:54:13 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Apr 15 15:05:36 2016 jason.vas.dias [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

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jason.vas.dias [...] gmail.com

The tests do succeed when run in a freshly built perl-5.22.1 installation with $ cpan ... cpan[1]> install Net::IMAP::Client ... $ echo $? 0 But I think List::MoreUtils should detect the case when it is going to fail and complain, or specify the version dependency on an up to date PERL.

Fri Apr 15 15:09:48 2016 jason.vas.dias [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

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jason.vas.dias [...] gmail.com

On Fri Apr 15 14:54:13 2016, REHSACK wrote: Show quoted text

> Would you please be so kind and execute > > $ perl -Mblib -MList::MoreUtils=insert_after -lE 'say List::MoreUtils-

> >VERSION;&insert_after( sub { }, 4711, "13" )'

> > and paste the result here?

Unfortunately, that's not going to work, because REHSACK/List-MoreUtils-0.413.tar.gz failed to be installed by CPAN . I don't install packages that fail their tests. However, I have access to a freshly installed Linux-4.5.0 LFS system where it does install OK - see last mail. But I think LMU should detect the case where it has a too old PERL version to pass its tests and complain about it / specify correct version dependency requirements.

Fri Apr 15 15:17:08 2016 REHSACK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Please go into the directory where your List-MoreUtils is built and execute the above specified line. List::MoreUtils detects the wrong setup and fails the test. That is good and behaves exactly as expected.

Fri Apr 15 16:02:03 2016 REHSACK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

It is not a L::MU problem but a weird setup. Reported does not know how to do sanity checks.

Fri Apr 15 16:02:03 2016 REHSACK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'rejected'

Sun Apr 17 05:23:02 2016 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2016-04-15 15:09:48, jvdias wrote: [...] Show quoted text

> But I think LMU should detect the case where > it has a too old PERL version to pass its tests > and complain about it / specify correct version > dependency requirements.

LMU is supposed to work with much older perls, and CPAN Testers report passes down to perl 5.8.1: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=List-MoreUtils+0.413 On the other hand, there's no known failure with perl 5.16.3. So maybe it's worth to a little bit of investigation here...

Sun Apr 17 05:35:06 2016 REHSACK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

CentOS 7 comes with much more recent perl than 5.8.1. I'm happy to investigate - but I can't reproduce the issue so I presume the reporter has something weird in his setup. As long as he doesn't take his environment and executes the commands I (or in case you want to guide him: you) specify, I'm out. I'm happy to fix issues I can reproduce, I'm happy to discuss when I can't to guide me to do. But I don't see it as my job to follow every test failure, cause most not obvious are setup errors. I do all of this in my spare time. I don't earn money with maintaining Perl modules. If you are hired to support cpan modules out there, be my guest.