[perl #59924] [BUG] t/examples/library.t: new failure

[James Keenan via RT]

On Sat Oct 18 09:39:52 2008, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:

> 
> 
> Here is more data concerning the above test failure.
> 
> Between r31872 (Oct 10) and r31967 (Oct 14), I used 'apt-get' to install
> 4 additional Debian packages on the Linux box on which these tests were
> run.  The packages were:
> 
> ii  libgmp3-dev    4.2.1+dfsg-4   Multiprecision arithmetic library
> developers
> ii  libgmp3-doc    4.2.1+dfsg-4   Multiprecision arithmetic library
> example co
> ii  libgmp3c2      4.2.1+dfsg-4   Multiprecision arithmetic library
> ii  libgmpxx4      4.2.1+dfsg-4   Multiprecision arithmetic library (C++
> bindi
> 
> I installed these packages because on Linux, Configure.pl was telling me
> in step auto::gmp that it could not locate GMP.  So I was never building
> Parrot with GMP.  After installing these four packages, Configure.pl
> told me it was now locating GMP.
> 
> But it was after this install that the test in t/examples/library.t
> began to fail.  So I called 'apt-get remove' to remove the 4 packages
> above.  At this point the test began to pass in both r31967 and HEAD.
> 
> So, can anyone speculate as to why installation of these 4 packages
> would cause a failure in a test of PCRE?
> 

This morning I found time to reinstall the 3 libgmp3 packages -- but I
did not reinstall the libgmp4 package.  All tests passed on Linux.

So perhaps it was a problem between gmp3 and gmp4.  Closing ticket.

kid51