The OS is AIX 5.2 latest maintenance level.

I've already posted to the CPAN forum, but it doesn't seem to get much traffic.

I'm not seeing *exactly* the same problem in the CPAN bug list.

Super Search yeilded squat. Terms = "Test::Simple" and "lock".

Admitedly, this is urgent, so I didn't do any up-front investigating on my own. I wanted to throw this out there first, before I dug in looking for an answer myself. Sorry. It's time critical. You've been forewarned of my wimpiness.

Here is the 'make test' errors on Test::Simple 0.62 with Perl 5.8.0:

t/diag....................lock can only be used on shared values at /t
+mp/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Tes
t/Builder.pm line 394.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-5
        Failed 5/5 tests, 0.00% okay

*snip*

t/overload_threads........lock can only be used on shared values at /t
+mp/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Tes
t/Builder.pm line 394.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-5
        Failed 5/5 tests, 0.00% okay

*snip*

t/sort_bug................lock can only be used on shared values at /t
+mp/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Tes
t/Builder.pm line 394.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
A thread exited while 2 other threads were still running.
dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-2
        Failed 2/2 tests, 0.00% okay

*snip*

t/threads.................thread failed to start: lock can only be use
+d on shared values at /tmp/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-
Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 394.
thread failed to start: lock can only be used on shared values at /tmp
+/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/
Builder.pm line 394.
thread failed to start: lock can only be used on shared values at /tmp
+/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/
Builder.pm line 394.
thread failed to start: lock can only be used on shared values at /tmp
+/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/
Builder.pm line 394.
thread failed to start: lock can only be used on shared values at /tmp
+/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/
Builder.pm line 394.
lock can only be used on shared values at /tmp/Lugh/perl_modules/Test-
+Simple-0.62/blib/lib/Test/Builder.pm line 1352.
# Looks like your test died before it could output anything.
dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 1-6
        Failed 6/6 tests, 0.00% okay

*snip*

Failed 4/63 test scripts, 93.65% okay. 18/487 subtests failed, 96.30% 
+okay.
Failed Test          Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/diag.t              255 65280     5    5 100.00%  1-5
t/overload_threads.t  255 65280     5    5 100.00%  1-5
t/sort_bug.t          255 65280     2    2 100.00%  1-2
t/threads.t           255 65280     6    6 100.00%  1-6
2 tests and 8 subtests skipped.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 25.


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