Dear monks, I'm building Perl 5.8.5 under Linux on a SunBlade 100. "make" is ok, but "make test" fails at op/write.t, and then just the first 3 tests. Every other test is ok. The first three tests test "format"; the first goes thus: 
format OUT =
the quick brown @<<
$fox
jumped
@*
$multiline
^<<<<<<<<<
$foo
^<<<<<<<<<
$foo
^<<<<<<...
$foo
now @<<the@>>>> for all@|||||men to come @<<<<
{
    'i' . 's', "time\n", $good, 'to'
}
.

open(OUT, '>Op_write.tmp') || die "Can't create Op_write.tmp";
END { 1 while unlink 'Op_write.tmp' }$good = 'good';
$multiline = "forescore\nand\nseven years\n";
$foo = 'when in the course of human events it becomes necessary';
write(OUT);
close OUT or die "Could not close: $!";

$right =
"the quick brown fox
jumped
forescore
and
seven years
when in
the course
of huma...
now is the time for all good men to come to\n";

if (cat('Op_write.tmp') eq $right)
    { print "ok 1\n"; 1 while unlink 'Op_write.tmp'; }
else
    { print "not ok 1\n"; }

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I'm supposed to get $right, and here is what I get: 
the quick brown fox
jumped
forescore
and
seven years
when in
the course
of huma...
now is thetime  for all good men to come to
The space that was to preceed time now follows it. I don't understand what happened to the newline, but it does appear that the output I got did mess up the padding. What do you think?

20040810 Edit by ysth: change title from: make test failure

In reply to perl-5.8.5 op/write.t fails by RandomWalk

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