From where does one obtain the perl-5.11.0 source ? (I can't find it anywhere, though quite a few people seem to have located it ... I'll keep looking for it.)

Note that there has been no 5.11.0 release, but there will be at some point. Anything that calls itself 5.11.0 now is a work in progress.

Anything that calls itself 5.11.0 now is a work in progress

I wondered whether that might be the case. I think I'll wait for an official release of 5.11.0 (or at least for a 5.11.0 release candidate) before I go testing it out. Thanks for the info ysth.

Cheers,
Rob

Every bit of testing helps, and there's not likely to be anything more significant to something marked as a release. Just be aware that there's no compatibility guarantee even from one day's build to the next.
--
Online Fortune Cookie Search

I note you're running blead (5.11.0). The problem there might lie with something other than Math::Pari (eg Test::Harness).

I get the same error with a fresh compiled 5.10 and Test::Harness 3.10.

From where does one obtain the perl-5.11.0 source ?

Have a look at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/source.html.

-- Frank

I get the same error with a fresh compiled 5.10 and Test::Harness 3.10

On my perl-5.10 I had Test-Harness-2.64. I updated to version 3.10, and Math-Pari still builds and tests flawlessly for me. Maybe you ought to switch to Win32 :-)))

Sorry, I don't know why 'make test' reports that absurd "FAIL" for you. It may signify a problem with Math::Pari ... or it may signify a problem with something else.

Cheers,
Rob

On my perl-5.10 I had Test-Harness-2.64. I updated to version 3.10, and Math-Pari still builds and tests flawlessly for me.

I investigated further, here's my report:

With perl5.8.8 make test runs fine, with 5.10.0 (and blead) it doesn't. Both perls use the same version of ExtUtils::Command::MM (6.44) and Test::Harness (3.10). Furthermore I isolated the test file which seem to cause this strange error, it's t/55_objets.t (sic!). This test file uses test_eng/Testout.pm, which loads pari-2.1.7/src/test/32/objets (at least on my system). I reduced this file to

   realprecision = 38 significant digits
   echo = 1 (on)
? truncate(1.7,&e)
1
? \p57
   realprecision = 57 significant digits
? length(divisors(1000))
16
? \q
[download]

Now we run the t/5_objets.t test file:

$ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/perl-33445/bin/perl5.11.0 "-MExtUtils::Comman
+d::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/55_objets.t
t/55_objets...... All 3 subtests passed

Test Summary Report
-------------------
Files=1, Tests=3,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  0.04 cusr 
+ 0.02 csys =  0.06 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/3 subtests failed.
[download]

That's all for today, maybe it could help the Math::Pari people to find the bug.

-- Frank