Yeah, I agree, it would save time if there was a check during make test itself and a die with a version incompatible message.
Carl Furst CMS Developer MLB Advanced Media On 1/8/15, 11:20 AM, "John Wiersba" <jrw32...@gmail.com> wrote: >Adding dbi-users > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: John Wiersba <jrw32...@gmail.com> >Date: Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:19 AM >Subject: Re: "make test" fails installing DBI-1.632 (linux, perl5.8.8) >To: "Furst, Carl" <carl.fu...@mlb.com> > >Thanks, Carl. Well, I see that now, but I did not see it before, even >after looking for it. And it's only a warning; it did not cause a >failure in the Makefile.PL step (exit status = 0). Additionally, it's >nowhere near the point of failure, which occurred in make test. > >Maybe I'm dreaming, but if the wrong version of Test::Simple will >cause test failures, then detecting the wrong version should trigger a >failure and it should be loud. I spent probably an hour of time >scanning the docs for any mention of the problem, debugging the >failing test, then guessing the cause (maybe there's a more recent >version of Test::More needed to supply the note() function), and >searching on google, to end up deducing that Test::Simple needed to be >updated. > >Or, alternatively, some comment in INSTALL or README.md mentioning the >correlation of the symptoms (failed test) with the version of >Test::Simple installed. > >On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Furst, Carl <carl.fu...@mlb.com> wrote: >> But it did say: >> >> Warning: prerequisite Test::Simple 0.90 not found. We have 0.62. >> >> >> Which is the same thing, really. >> >> >> Carl Furst >> CMS Developer >> MLB Advanced Media >> >> >> >> >> >> On 1/8/15, 10:48 AM, "John Wiersba" <jrw32...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>After installing the latest version of Test::Simple, all tests passed, >>>and the installation (and a test script) succeeded. Problem #3 is >>>that the make (or make test) didn't fail with something like >>>"dependency on Test::Simple 0.90 not satisfied". >>> >>>On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 04:50:52PM -0500, John Wiersba wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I see in META.{json,yaml} that a later version of Test::Simple is >>>>> required, but that doesn't seem to cause a noticable error message or >>>>> abort the Makefile.PL/make/make test process. Installing the latest >>>>> version of Test::Simple allows "make test" to succeed. >>>> >>>> So there's no problem now? Or did that just fix t/06attr.t? >>>> >>>> Tim. >> >> ********************************************************** >> >> MLB.com: Where Baseball is Always On ********************************************************** MLB.com: Where Baseball is Always On