On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 02:18 +0100, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > On Dec 7, 2005, at 0:29, Michael Cummings wrote: > > On that hardware it certainly shouldn't need minutes to finish. It's > just strange:
> This is on a PowerBook G4 with 1.2 GHz - certainly not a fast system, > ~7 seconds for the test is a pita (if you run it really a lot per day, > but else not a problem) > > With ... > > $ time perl t/harness t/perl/manifest.t > t/perl/manifest....ok 2/3# this may take a while... > > ... I see the diag message too, but it may be OS dependent ... hmm ... > no problem on x86 linux (and a lot faster (1 sec) than on OS/X). > > Which OS are you using? Gentoo linux (ask away - I maintain the installation of parrot for gentoo - stock make/make install sequence, no add-on patches, etc.) Follow up message narrows this down I think - has to do with not using a subversion checkout of parrot, but having svk on the box.