Hi all, Devs with CPAN access to Gtk2-Perl modules have probably been receiving test failure reports for ExtUtils::PkgConfig on OpenBSD similar to this one [1].
I had some tuits last night and dug into the problem. You know that old joke that about your job being replaced with a Perl script? Well, on OpenBSD, the pkg-config binary from freedesktop.org [2] actually has been replaced with a Perl script [3]. The OpenBSD Perl script rewrite of the pkg-config binary is not honoring the --max-version command line switch, which causes one of the tests for this switch in ExtUtils::PkgConfig to fail. I just spotted the actual bug in their Perl pkg-config replacement, and will submit a patch shortly. My question here is, is the noise from this test worth adding a SKIP case for the tests in ExtUtils::PkgConfig on OpenBSD, or can we/should we just ignore the test failures until it's fixed upstream? Thanks, Brian [1] http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/d2fbd25c-3bec-11e2-8669-e1a096fec937 [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config [3] http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pkg-config _______________________________________________ gtk-perl-list mailing list gtk-perl-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-perl-list