It seems like mpm_is_threaded should answer 1 for the event MPM, but it answers 0, and the test fails. The patch works around this by detecting whether it is actually prefork or not, but there may be a deeper problem here. HTH. -Mark
2014-06-23 14:02:45 Mon $ svn diff ModPerl-Registry/t/prefork.t Index: ModPerl-Registry/t/prefork.t =================================================================== --- ModPerl-Registry/t/prefork.t (revision 1604925) +++ ModPerl-Registry/t/prefork.t (working copy) @@ -8,9 +8,12 @@ use Apache::TestConfig (); use Apache2::Build (); - my $mpm_is_threaded = Apache2::Build->build_config->mpm_is_threaded(); +my $mpm = Apache2::Build->build_config->mpm_name(); +t_debug "# mpm_is_threaded: '$mpm_is_threaded'"; +t_debug "# mpm: '$mpm'"; + my %modules = ( registry => 'ModPerl::Registry', perlrun => 'ModPerl::PerlRun', @@ -21,7 +24,8 @@ my @aliases = sort keys %modules; plan tests => 1*@aliases, need 'mod_alias.c', - { "can't run under threaded MPMs" => !$mpm_is_threaded }; + { "can't run under threaded MPMs" => !$mpm_is_threaded }, + { "works only for prefork" => ($mpm eq 'prefork') }; my $script = "prefork.pl"; 2014-06-23 14:02:54 Mon $ cd ModPerl-Registry/; t/TEST -verbose t/prefork.t /ntfhome/local/sbin/httpd -d /ntfhome/local/src/mod_perl2_svn/mod_perl/ModPerl-Registry/t -f /ntfhome/local/src/mod_perl2_svn/mod_perl/ModPerl-Registry/t/conf/httpd.conf -D APACHE2 -D PERL_USEITHREADS using Apache/2.2.27 (event MPM) waiting 90 seconds for server to start: ... waiting 90 seconds for server to start: ok (waited 1 secs) server localhost:8529 started t/prefork.t .. # # mpm_is_threaded: '0' # # mpm: 'event' 1..0 # skipped: works only for prefork skipped: works only for prefork Files=1, Tests=0, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.05 usr 0.02 sys + 0.59 cusr 0.24 csys = 0.90 CPU) Result: NOTESTS [warning] server localhost:8529 shutdown [warning] port 8529 still in use... done