threads branch on darwin/ppc: one file now passes but two others hang

[James E Keenan]

On 8/11/12 7:37 PM, James E Keenan wrote:

>
> This was suspicious. So I again retested master -- which PASSed again
> and then retested the threads branch -- which hung at
> t/pir/timer_exit.t. When I ran 'prove t/pir/timer_exit.t' individually
> while 'make test' was still hanging at its invocation of that test, it
> hung. Then, after I killed 'make test', I tried 'prove
> t/pir/timer_exit.t' -- which ran quickly and PASSed.

After pulling latest commits in the threads branch tonight, 'make test' 
on Darwin/PPC again hung at t/pir/timer_exit.t -- even though while it 
was still hanging I was able to call 'prove t/pir/timer_exit.t' and have 
that execute lickety-split.

jimk