Hello again,

I'm trying to setup a new AIX 5.3.0.0 machine with Perl 5.8.8 and gcc 4.0.1, and I'm hitting some issues on installing XML-related modules.

After experiencing some fun trying to install XML::Parser (still unresolved) I next set out to install XML::Simple. A ran into a little bug there, but some googling fixed that.

So, now onto XML::SAX::Writer. A make test gave me the following yumminess:

$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /dbpar/perl/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" 
+"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/05basic........ok 1/27
Unsupported conversion: A system call received a parameter that is not
+ valid. at /db2/dlink/.cpan/build/XML-SAX-Writer-0.44/blib/lib/XML/SA
+X/Writer.pm line 71.
# Looks like you planned 27 tests but only ran 17.
# Looks like your test died just after 17.
t/05basic........dubious
        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
DIED. FAILED tests 18-27
        Failed 10/27 tests, 62.96% okay
t/10consumers....ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/05basic.t  255 65280    27   20  18-27
Failed 1/2 test scripts. 10/42 subtests failed.
Files=2, Tests=42,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.16 cusr +  0.01 csys =  0.17 
+CPU)
Failed 1/2 test programs. 10/42 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
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A bit of debugging identified the culprit as this line of code (line 49):

$w1->{EncodeFrom} = 'iso-8859-1';

If I remove simply comment out this line this one test fails (obviously), but the rest of the tests pass:

t/05basic........NOK 18#   Failed test 'iconv converter for real encod
+ing isa Text::Iconv'
#   in t/05basic.t at line 51.
#     iconv converter for real encoding isn't a 'Text::Iconv' it's a '
+XML::SAX::Writer::NullConverter'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 27.
t/05basic........dubious
        Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 18
        Failed 1/27 tests, 96.30% okay
t/10consumers....ok
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
t/05basic.t    1   256    27    1  18
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I'm trying to be a good netizen and help identify what's going on, but I'm a little stuck and looking for some help. If I switch the encoding to something else, like 'iso-8859-2' I get the same error. I reinstalled Text::Iconv (version 1.4), and there were no errors, although during make I see this:

gcc -c   -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -DUSE_NATIVE_D
+LOPEN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr
+/local/include -D_LARGE_FILES -O   -DVERSION=\"1.4\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1
+.4\"  "-I/dbpar/perl/lib/5.8.8/aix/CORE"   Iconv.c
Iconv.xs: In function 'do_conv':
Iconv.xs:116: warning: passing argument 2 of 'iconv' from incompatible
+ pointer type
Running Mkbootstrap for Text::Iconv ()
chmod 644 Iconv.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so
gcc  -Wl,-bhalt:4 -Wl,-bexpall -Wl,-G -Wl,-bnoentry -lc -L/usr/local/l
+ib Iconv.o  -o blib/arch/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so         \
   -liconv      \

chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.so
cp Iconv.bs blib/arch/auto/Text/Iconv/Iconv.bs
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But I'm kinda used to ignoring warnings like that if all the tests pass. Any ideas where I could look from here to debug further?