| Subject: | Windows/Perl 5.6.1 & utf8 |
I was about to install Net-eBay, and noticed that it's prerequisite,
XML-Dumper fails on Windows/5.6.1. Below are the results of my CPAN
testing from last year:
Testing M/MI/MIKEWONG/XML-Dumper-0.79
[CP_MSG] [Fri Oct 14 21:40:57 2005] Trying to get
'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIKEWONG/XML-Dumper-0.79.tar.gz'
[CP_MSG] [Fri Oct 14 21:40:58 2005] Trying to get
'ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MI/MIKEWONG/CHECKSUMS'
[CP_MSG] [Fri Oct 14 21:40:59 2005] Checksum matches for
'XML-Dumper-0.79.tar.gz'
[CP_MSG] [Fri Oct 14 21:41:02 2005] Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for XML::Dumper
[CP_MSG] [Fri Oct 14 21:41:04 2005] cp Dumper.pm blib\lib\XML\Dumper.pm
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0,
'blib\lib', 'blib\arch')" t\00_syntax.t t\01_simple_datatypes.t
t\02_circular_references.t t\03_objects.t t\04_callbacks.t
t\05_file_io.t t\06_compression.t t\07_dtd.t t\08_utf8.t
t\09_repeated_references.t t\10_backwards_compatible.t
t\11_control_characters.t t\12_class_loading.t t\13_untaint_classnames.t
t\14_overloading.t t\15_oo_cmp_ident.t t\handle_undef.t t\oo_style.t
t\scalar_literals.t
t\00_syntax..................ok
t\01_simple_datatypes........ok
t\02_circular_references.....ok
t\03_objects.................ok
t\04_callbacks...............ok
t\05_file_io.................ok
t\06_compression.............ok
t\07_dtd.....................ok
t\08_utf8....................FAILED tests 2, 4
Failed 2/4 tests, 50.00% okay
t\09_repeated_references.....ok
t\10_backwards_compatible....ok
t\11_control_characters......ok
t\12_class_loading...........ok
t\13_untaint_classnames......ok
t\14_overloading.............ok
t\15_oo_cmp_ident............ok
t\handle_undef...............ok
t\oo_style...................ok
t\scalar_literals............ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t\08_utf8.t 4 2 50.00% 2 4
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
Test for UTF8 perl failed: data doesn't match!
Failed 1/19 test scripts, 94.74% okay. 2/53 subtests failed, 96.23% okay.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe' : return code '0xff'
Stop.
Report Grade for XML-Dumper-0.79 is FAIL
Hope this gives you an idea of the problem.