I have tried cygwin/XP with perl 5.8.8 and perl 5.8.10 and
both passed all tests successfully.  Has anyone tried a vanilla
build of PDL with only the dependencies that have been on
the FAILing systems?

--Chris

Chris Marshall wrote:
> To All Eager PDL Developers,
>
> Here is a quick analysis of the PDL-2.4.3_01 build failures
> as reported by CPAN Testers.  Basically, perl 5.6 works
> but 5.8 and 5.10 fail.  Darwin has issues with the autoload
> test and NetBSD has broken uudecod options set.
>
> *BUT*
>
> inlinepdlpp is the Gorilla problem.  All OSes tested with
> perls 5.8.x or 5.10.0 fail on this one!  Debugging help
> welcomed.  I have never seen an error with autoload or
> inlinepdlpp on cygwin.  I'll try a clean test tonight.
>
> --Chris
>
>
> By perl version:
>
>    perl 5.6.2:  all PASS (Darwin, Linux, NetBSD)
>    perl 5.8.x:  all FAIL (Darwin, Linux, NetBSD)
>    perl 5.10.0: all FAIL (Darwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris)
>
>
> By failed test name:
>
>   t/autoload ...      failed 1/2 subtests, looks like #2,
>                            (Darwin)
>
>   t/dumper ...       bad flags given to uudecode on flavors of *BSD
>                            This was a 2.4.3 bug that I thought had been put
>                             into the cvs.  I'll check this one out.
>                            (NetBSD)
>
>   t/inlinepdlpp ... Error. You have specified 'Pdlpp' as an Inline 
> programming language.
>                           There was a t/inlinepdlpp error for almost all 
> FAILs.  The above
>                           message was reported for >3/4 of them.
>                           (Darwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris)
>
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