Oh wise ones,

I am currently running perl 5.8.8 on a server and I'm trying to install 5.14.

I configured it to usethreads and use64bitint and otherwise the defaults it suggested.

make ran without problems, but make test is failing, on 

  ../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/ipcsysv.t
  ../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/shm.t
thus: 
# ./perl harness ../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/shm.t ../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/ipcsysv.t
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/shm.t ...... IPC::SharedMem->new failed: Invalid ar
+gument at t/shm.t line 54.
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/shm.t ...... Dubious, test returned 22 (wstat 5632,
+ 0x1600)
No subtests run
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/ipcsysv.t .. 1/38 shmget failed: Invalid argument a
+t t/ipcsysv.t line 100.
# Looks like you planned 38 tests but ran 17.
# Looks like your test exited with 22 just after 17.
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/ipcsysv.t .. Dubious, test returned 22 (wstat 5632,
+ 0x1600)
Failed 21/38 subtests

Test Summary Report
-------------------
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/shm.t    (Wstat: 5632 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 22
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
../cpan/IPC-SysV/t/ipcsysv.t (Wstat: 5632 Tests: 17 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 22
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 38 tests but ran 17.
Files=2, Tests=17,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr  0.00 sys +  0.13 cusr
+  0.00 csys =  0.14 CPU)
Result: FAIL

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Both of these tests are reporting 'Invalid argument', but when I look at the source, I can't see anything that looks invlaid. I'm not really sure how to proceed... any pointers?

In reply to IPC-SysV problems when upgrading perl. by dancrumb

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