[tap-l] Test-Harness errors [was: data request]

[EBo]

>> As a note, most of Test-Harness's tests break on my
>> linux box (Gentoo Linux on a x86_64), but the basic tests are still
>> helpful.
> 
> Really? That's quite odd - we've got 246 passes / 3 fails for the
current
> release:
> 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Harness.html
> 
> And for those three failures we have, at most, four failed assertions
out
> of nearly 12,000 tests.
> 
> I'd be interested to see a transcript of a failing test run.

Updating to the latest experimental version was a lot less painless than I
was expecting...  

The tests basically run now, but with 47 errors instead of 3.  So, the big
problem was running tests on perl-Test-Harness-3.22 tests on a system with
perl-Test-Harness-3.17 and perl-5.12.1 installed.  Details to follow:

running command "prove -twv --directives  t/*.t"

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/iterators.t        (Wstat: 2048 Tests: 76 Failed: 8)
  Failed tests:  7-13, 15
  Non-zero exit status: 8
t/nofork-mux.t       (Wstat: 512 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 2
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
t/regression.t       (Wstat: 26368 Tests: 4791 Failed: 103)
  Failed tests:  2, 5, 31, 34, 58, 61, 85, 88, 114, 118
                145-146, 171-172, 200-201, 226-227, 252
                255, 278-279, 308, 312, 338, 342, 368-369
                395-396, 422, 425, 452, 454-455, 481, 484
                509-510, 538-539, 563, 567, 593, 597, 623
                627, 653, 657, 683-684, 686, 690, 716, 720
                746, 749, 775-776, 803-804, 831-832, 835-837
                866, 870, 896-897, 923-924, 926-927, 929
                955, 958, 984, 987, 1013-1014, 1040, 1043
                1069, 1073, 1099, 1102, 1126-1127, 1129
                1133, 1159, 1163, 1189-1190, 1192, 1196
                1222-1223, 1226-1227, 1253, 1257
  Non-zero exit status: 103
Files=47, Tests=8885,  8 wallclock secs ( 1.12 usr  0.19 sys +  3.01 cusr 
0.61 csys =  4.93 CPU)
Result: FAIL

As noted before, I am running Gentoo.  If you want me to give you the
versions of all the installed perl components let me know and I'll cut it
out of the installed portage packages for you.

Hope this helps.


  EBo --