pre-merge testing on I/O branch

[James E Keenan]

Allison Randal wrote:
> As of r33639, all core tests are passing in the pdd22io_part2 branch on 
> the platforms I have access to (Intel Mac 10.5.5, Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit). 
> This branch takes the new I/O system that was merged into trunk a few 
> weeks ago, and makes it the default, replacing the old I/O system.
> 
> I would appreciate any platform or language testing, 

The following Smolder report is on the pdd22io_part2 branch; platform is 
Darwin/PPC.

http://smolder.plusthree.com/app/public_projects/report_details/8470

This branch was forked from trunk at r32922 on Nov 20.  IIRC, at that 
time we were getting failures in t/pmc/packfile.t on Darwin/PPC.  That 
might explain the failure in that file in this Smolder report.  In 
trunk, that failure was subsequently fixed (though I never figured out 
exactly how or by whom).  See 
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60068

However, since the branch was created a *new* test failure has been 
appearing steadily on Darwin (both PPC and i386) in trunk: 
t/compilers/imcc/syn/macro.t.  See 
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=60926.  That failure came 
in at r33324, IIRC.

Can we merge the branch in without ending up with failures in two files 
on Darwin?

Keeping fingers crossed.
kid51