I recently upgraded to Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.1) and (as reported elsewhere), that breaks CPAN installed modules. I tried to reinstall my Gedcom and Gedcom::Date modules and found that Gedcom::Date failed all t/101* tests (gets the year wrong - see below).

Has anyone else experienced this? More importantly, has anyone fixed it? I can't parse my Gedcom file without it! (wah!)

BTW, I've done some Googling on this problem and haven't found anything; I also wrote the author, but he hasn't answered (yet). Finally, I tried debugging it but when I got to the line:

Test::Harness::execute_tests(/System/Library/Perl/5.10.0/Test/Harness.
+pm:367):
367:              do { warn $Strap->{error}, "\n";  next };

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stepping into that triggered all the error messages and I couldn't get any partial results (pardon my ignorance here, but I couldn't get the debugger to let me step through the code that seems broken.

Any help will be appreciated. Thank you.

PS: The errors in make test look like this:

#   Failed test '10 JUL 2003
#  in '
#   at t/101_output.t line 30.
#          got: 'on 10 July 3'
#     expected: 'on 10 July 2003'
t/101_output.....NOK 1/42                                             
+       
#   Failed test '10 JUL 2003
#  in en'
[snip lots more lines - they all fail]

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In reply to Gedcom::Date broken in perl 5.10 (on a Mac)? by dmac

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