perl 5.10.0 installation issues on CentOS 5

skirnir has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,

Due to this bug report I decided to install perl 5.10.0 on a CentOS 5 server using the following configuration:

# /opt/perl/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 0) configuration
+:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1, archname=i686-linux-th
+read-multi
    uname='linux devtest 2.6.16.33-xen_3.0.4.1 #1 smp fri jan 5 10:40:
+15 est 2007 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dprefix=/opt/perl'
    hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=und
+ef
    use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_
+BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -DDEBUGGING -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFS
+ET_BITS=64'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)', gcco
+sandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+2
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.5'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
                        PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
                        PERL_TRACK_MEMPOOL USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILE
+S
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at May 29 2008 14:10:38
  @INC:
    /opt/perl/lib/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /opt/perl/lib/5.10.0
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
    /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.10.0
    .
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When running make test, the following is the interesting part of the output:

op/mkdir.........................................................# Fai
+led at op/mkdir.t line 20
#      got '17'
# expected /(?i-xsm:cannot move|exist|denied|unknown)/
# Failed at op/mkdir.t line 24
#      got '2'
# expected /(?i-xsm:cannot find|such|exist|not found|not a directory|u
+nknown)/
op/mkdir.........................................................FAILE
+D tests 3, 7
        Failed 2/22 tests, 90.91% okay



../ext/PerlIO/t/PerlIO...........................................ok
../ext/PerlIO/t/scalar...........................................#    
+ You named your test '9'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your test na
+mes.
#     Very confusing.
#     You named your test '22'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your te
+st names.
#     Very confusing.
#     You named your test '9'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your tes
+t names.
#     Very confusing.
#     You named your test '22'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your te
+st names.
#     Very confusing.
#     You named your test '22'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your te
+st names.
#     Very confusing.
#     You named your test '22'.  You shouldn't use numbers for your te
+st names.
#     Very confusing.



../lib/constant..................................................
#   Failed test at ../lib/constant.t line 113.
#     '1'
#         >
#     '6'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 97.
../lib/constant..................................................dubio
+us
        Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
DIED. FAILED test 33
        Failed 1/97 tests, 98.97% okay



Failed Test       Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
----------------------------------------------------------------------
+---------
../lib/constant.t    1   256    97    1  33
op/mkdir.t                      22    2  3 7
30 tests and 864 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/1461 test scripts. 3/189213 subtests failed.
Files=1461, Tests=189213, 818 wallclock secs (241.37 cusr + 26.83 csys
+ = 268.20 CPU)
Failed 2/1461 test programs. 3/189213 subtests failed.
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The 'like' in the following snippet is line 20 in op/mkdir (line 24 is analogous with rmdir tests before):

ok(mkdir('blurfl',0777));
ok(!mkdir('blurfl',0777));
like($!, qr/cannot move|exist|denied|unknown/i);
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I first attributed this to $! returning errno in numeric context and put the $! in double quotes in both lines which didn't make any difference. Ok, it wasn't very likely anyway that it had to do with the tests, I did that out of curiosity for the most part. line 113 in constant.t is the last one of the following snippet:

use constant E2BIG => $! = 7;
cmp_ok E2BIG, '==', 7;
# This is something like "Arg list too long", but the actual message
# text may vary, so we can't test much better than this.
cmp_ok length(E2BIG), '>', 6;
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Here I have no idea at all what this is supposed to test. Could anyone please give me a hint on what these results mean and how I can possibly pass those? I compiled perl 5.10.0 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron (64bit) with the same configuration later yesterday and it passed all tests on first try.

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Re: perl 5.10.0 installation issues on CentOS 5 by Anonymous Monk on May 31, 2008 at 08:09 UTC
Could anyone please give me a hint on what these results mean and how I can possibly pass those? Nothing for you to worry about. You don't need to pass them. Report it to perl5-porters.	[reply]