(Sorry about that.)

Again, unnecessary. My words were more of a defense of my acting "stupid", than any critism of your timely intervention in this thread. I have to wonder about the need for the ability to change the names, but there is undoubtedly some system somewhere where the default names happens to coincide with the system command for formatting the hard drive or some such :)

Anyway, do remember that not a lot of people have set up smoke, and even less on win32,

Understood. I started the process at 18:22:14, and I'm trying to take notes as I go. I didn't expect it to take this long or require this amount of manual intervention.

The problem is that the test suite makes several calls to system functions that cause my firewall to intervene with popups requesting authorisation. Pre-authorising perl.exe and miniperl.exe doesn't help much because it also detects changes in authorised executables and as the smoketest keeps rebuilding them--it still keeps prompting. Still doesn't allow unattended operation.

This is the same problem I encountered when I considered setting up smoke testing on win32 some some 4 years ago.

Alternatives:

  1. Disconnect from the internet and disable the firewall.

    The tests will still fail.

    Many years ago, crazyinsomniac or podmaster suggested (in a post I can't now find), that he had tried to float the idea of removing/disabling these tests that cause internet access with p5p, but it fell on deaf ears.

  2. Leave the internet connection active and disable the firewall.

    Not an option. My firewall logs record some 280+ attempted incoming scans of various ports in the 7 hours this has been running.

  3. Other...?
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