At 12:14 PM +0100 3/13/07, Vorländer, Martin wrote: >Hi Craig! Long time no talk.
Good to see you on vmsperl again. Stop by more often. > > What I saw is a >test failure in t/gd.t after what seemed to be a seamless build: > >$ mmk test >MCR $1$dga100:[tools.perl5_8_6]perl.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" > "-e" "test_harness(0, '[.blib.lib]', '[.blib.arch]')" t/*.t >t/gd.......... >Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at t/gd.t line 6. >Regression tests require one or more of PNG, GIF or JPEG support in libgd. at >t/gd.t line 29. >%SYSTEM-F-NOLOGNAM, no logical name match >dubious > Test returned status 444 (wstat 1024, 0x400) > (VMS status is 444) >... > >The message "Regression tests require..." stems from the env var GDIMAGETYPE >not being defined and neither newFromPng nor newFromJpeg nor newFromGif being >recognized by GD::Image (or UNIVERSAL) as valid class methods. > >Which led me to the conclusion that this failure was soimthing so basic >that it had something to do with exported symbols... Sorry. > >But looking at the other error message (t/gd.t line 6), there seems >more that's not quite right: > >$ perl "-MFindBin=$Bin" -e "print ""$Bin\n""" >DISK$DATA:[TEMP.WEB_NEU.SRC.MODULE.GD-2_35] >$ > Have a look at the following patch in blead: http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse/p/30037 The FindBin docs indicate you can take $Bin and simply paste unix syntax filename pieces onto the end of it. If that ever worked on VMS (doubtful), I think it's been broken a long time. It's fixed in blead and looks like that fix will be in 5.8.9. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
