[Info-vax] Perl 5.28.1 binary kit for OpenVMS I64 available

[Joukj]

Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> but.,,,, Then I gave the following command in the [.source] directory:
>> $ MMK test
>>
>> This resulted in 19 failed tests on Alpha and 20 on IA64 (see details 
>> below). Is this "normal" behaviour? and if so why are these tests not 
>> skipped like so many other tests?
> 
> I usually get 2 or 3 test failures on my systems for things I haven't
> gotten around to fixing. Never anywhere near what you got. There could
> be be many possible explanations about what's different in your
> environment, from DECC$* settings, to volume characteristics, to whether
> networking tests can find a network to test with.
> 
> The first thing I would try to eliminate would be testing with
> privileges enabled, for example by having a system UIC group (what is
> it, 010 or lower?). The test suite explicitly downgrades its privileges,
> but that won't help if you are running under a system account. There are
> quite a few tests that try to make sure there are certain things they
> cannot do -- if they end up being able to do them because of elevated
> privileges, the test fails.

I did indeed run the tests as SYSTEM

> 
> Other than that, each test would have to be run individually and
> debugged to see what differs between what it's getting and what it's
> expecting.
> 
> But you did get 99.2% OK, so you likely have pretty high-functioning
> Perl kits.

OK great then.

                Jouk