Re: CPAN Testers Daily Report
I think Test::NeedsDisplay was written to be able to skip tests that need a display. We use it in Padre. Gabor On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Lorenz Domke wrote: Hello CPAN tester, thank you for your test report. I am not sure what causes the failure. On other machines the module builds without problem and tests are ok. I suppose that the version number of the requested Tk is responsible for the failure. I need Tk for the tests and therefore I must require Tk in Makefile.PL. Otherwise Tk will not be loaded at all and the test will fail. I thought that a version number 0 would be less than any other version number and therefore accept each version of Tk but may be that I'm mistaken. Tk appears to have built fine and been included. The problem is that I don't have a DISPLAY available: snip couldn't connect to display :0 at /usr/home/cpan/pit/rel/conf/perl-5.8.9/.cpanplus/5.8.9/build/Tk-804.028/blib/lib/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow-new() at t/Tk-XPMs.t line 27 /snip I would appreciate any further information wich can help me to change my module in order to be more robust. Thank's in advance for your help. I believe that people usually check that the DISPLAY environment variable is set and skip these kind of tests if it isn't set. Unless there is another way of checking that a display is available. I'm CC'ing the cpantesters discussion list in if anyone has any further advice. I unfortunately don't have the tuits at the moment to setup a display for the 20+ machine images I maintain for CPAN testing. Best regards, Lorenz Domke Original-Nachricht Tk-XPMs-1.10: - i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int / 5.8.9: - FAIL http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2688669 Cheers,
Re: CPAN Testers Daily Report
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 09:46:25AM +, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: The problem is that I don't have a DISPLAY available: couldn't connect to display :0 at /usr/home/cpan/pit/rel/conf/perl-5.8.9/.cpanplus/5.8.9/build/Tk-804.028/blib/lib/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow-new() at t/Tk-XPMs.t line 27 On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Lorenz Domke wrote: I would appreciate any further information wich can help me to change my module in order to be more robust. Thank's in advance for your help. The issue with DISPLAY and Tk has come up before. See Why are you testing (and failing) my Tk-ish module without an X server? on this page: http://wiki.cpantesters.org/wiki/CPANAuthorNotes -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Irregular English: you have anecdotes; they have data; I have proof
Re: CPAN Testers Daily Report
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:10:25AM +0100, Lorenz Domke wrote: Hello CPAN tester, thank you for your test report. I am not sure what causes the failure. On other machines the module builds without problem and tests are ok. I suppose that the version number of the requested Tk is responsible for the failure. I need Tk for the tests and therefore I must require Tk in Makefile.PL. Otherwise Tk will not be loaded at all and the test will fail. I thought that a version number 0 would be less than any other version number and therefore accept each version of Tk but may be that I'm mistaken. Tk appears to have built fine and been included. The problem is that I don't have a DISPLAY available: snip couldn't connect to display :0 at /usr/home/cpan/pit/rel/conf/perl-5.8.9/.cpanplus/5.8.9/build/Tk-804.028/blib/lib/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow-new() at t/Tk-XPMs.t line 27 /snip I would appreciate any further information wich can help me to change my module in order to be more robust. Thank's in advance for your help. I believe that people usually check that the DISPLAY environment variable is set and skip these kind of tests if it isn't set. Unless there is another way of checking that a display is available. I'm CC'ing the cpantesters discussion list in if anyone has any further advice. I unfortunately don't have the tuits at the moment to setup a display for the 20+ machine images I maintain for CPAN testing. Best regards, Lorenz Domke Original-Nachricht Tk-XPMs-1.10: - i386-freebsd-thread-multi-64int / 5.8.9: - FAIL http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2688669 Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk == pgpyMsmOc0mfi.pgp Description: PGP signature
