Hi Perl Manks and Gurus,

I’m stuck in getting any Perl module tested via the make test procedure generated. Here is the output of make with the verbose option activated:

/tmp/DBI-1.633>make test TEST_VERBOSE=1

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "- e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(1, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/ *.t
t/00simple_test.t ............... <----- here the make hangs and waits for ever !

when I hit the break key I get:

make: *** test_dynamic Quit

The test script just logs a message and is doing nothing else.

Here is the script 00simple_test.t

#!perl -w
use strict;
my $LOG;
my $LOG_FILE = './test_log';
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(tim
+e);
my $timestamp = sprintf ("%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d",$year+1900,$mo
+n+1,$mday,
$hour,$min,$sec);
open ($LOG,  '>', $LOG_FILE ) or die "Could not open the file $LOG_FIL
+E!\n$!\n";
print $LOG "\n### START ##############################################
+###########\n";
print $LOG   "### $timestamp\n";
#
###  Scripts that will run to check the module!
#
print      "ok 1 - running the test $0\n";
print $LOG "ok 1 - running the test $0\n";
print $LOG "### E N D ################################################
+#########\n#";
1;

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Here is the log that was created:

/tmp/DBI-1.633>cat test_log

### START #########################################################
### 2015-02-12 17:13:21
ok 1 - running the test t/00simple_test.t
### E N D #########################################################

When I run the script it outputs this:

ok 1 - running the test t/00simple_test.t

I don’t know why the make hangs. The script itself runs o.k., writes the log entries and I think it also exits? I have no idea if it exits or if the exit is not recognized by the TEST::HARNESS or if I stucks in the ExtUtil module or what happened during the make test run.
The verbose even shows me any indication so I think the TEST::HARNESS has the problem.
Can anybody of you help me how I can isolate this problems to look a little closer to find the root cause ?

Regards WolliK

In reply to make test hangs by Anonymous Monk

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