At least now we can see that the problem is the requirement for an OpenGL
context.
------------------------------
> PROGRAM OUTPUT
> ------------------------------
>
> Output from '/usr/perl5.24.0p/bin/perl5.24.0 Makefile.PL':
>
>
> run as `perl Makefile.PL help` to show user options
> $verbose set to 0 - enable by running as `perl Makefile.PL verbose`
>
>
> In order to test your GPU's capabilities, run this make under an X11 shell
>
> freeglut (./glversion): OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display ':62'
> get_extensions: no extensions found in utils/glversion.txt
> OS unsupported
>
>
Definitely useful to have the output from Makefile.PL failures. Too bad it
comes out as a bunch of NA reports.
--Chris
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Thanks for the try/catch fix. I hope it makes a difference. My
> experience is that CPAN Testers can take a long time to cycle through the
> list of VMs and perls they exercise. Still, it would be nice to know NAs
> appropriately... I'm fine with putting this in as another release
> candidate (assuming things check out).
>
> --Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Christian Walde <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:28:39 +0200, Christian Walde <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:25:05 +0200, Chris Marshall <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> We're now in code freeze for Perl OpenGL development with rc2 in testing
>> with CPAN Testers. If no issues are reported, this will be released as
>> OpenGL-0.70 no later than 10-Oct-2016.
>>
>>
>> I've been watching the cpantesters reports come in and noticed we'd been
>> getting a lot of nothing for linux and freebsd, asking bingos i found that
>> apparently makefile.pl crashes go unreported, which is annoying due to
>> there being a lot of moving parts in there for us.
>>
>> I'll be working on a way to get these reported as NA instead. It might
>> turn out fairly trivial.
>>
>>
>> The relevant changes can be seen here:
>>
>> https://metacpan.org/diff/file?target=MITHALDU%2FAcme-MITHAL
>> DU-BleedingOpenGL-0.67049%2FMakefile.PL&source=MITHALDU%
>> 2FAcme-MITHALDU-BleedingOpenGL-0.67048%2FMakefile.PL#Makefile.PL
>>
>> I hope they'll be making an impact here:
>>
>> http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Acme-MITHALDU-BleedingOpenGL+0.67049
>>
>> --
>> With regards,
>> Christian Walde
>>
>
>
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