Cygwin Perl install - make test failed

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

I'm trying to build a (non-threaded) perl in a Cygwin environment.

almut here guided me through some compilation issues (Thank you!), and everything seemed to compile properly, but make test failed:


Failed Test                  Stat Wstat Total Fail  List of Failed
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+---------
../ext/IPC/SysV/t/ipcsysv.t     1   256    17   34  1-17
../ext/IPC/SysV/t/msg.t         0    12    ??   ??  ??
../ext/IPC/SysV/t/sem.t         0    12    ??   ??  ??
../ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t    1   256   199    1  176
../ext/Time/HiRes/t/HiRes.t     0    15    38    0  ??
op/taint.t                      0    12   267  236  150-267
76 tests and 853 subtests skipped.
Failed 6/1482 test scripts. 136/188699 subtests failed.
Files=1482, Tests=188699, 1246 wallclock secs (343.98 cusr + 256.92 cs
+ys = 600.89 CPU)
Failed 6/1482 test programs. 136/188699 subtests failed.
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Any and all ideas welcome...

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Re: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by jettero (Monsignor) on May 28, 2009 at 21:19 UTC
If those are all the tests that failed, that's pretty damn good. IPC and particularly syslogs aren't going to work quite right on win32... no biggie. I'm a little surprised that stuff isn't handled a little more cross-platformy; but, I mean, you are working through two layers here... there's the win32 platform itself, which differs from how perl's IPC originally expected IPC to work (c'mon, it's unix centric) and then there's cygwin, which pretends to your programs it's unix, but isn't really. Anyway, if those are all the tests that actually failed, I'd just install. UPDATE: wow! a sysv-ipc system service?!? cool. (see below) -Paul	[reply]
Re^2: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by spstansbury (Monk) on May 28, 2009 at 21:32 UTC
Thank you. That was my gut feeling, but my experience level warrants a sanity check to make sure that I'm not ignoring something important. Thanks again...	[reply]
Re^3: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by Anonymous Monk on May 29, 2009 at 03:31 UTC
Re: Cygwin test failures with Perl 5.8.7-RC1 Yes. Recent cygwins have sysv ipc, but you need to run the cygserver service to have it active. See /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/cygserver.README.	[reply]
Re^2: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by Anonymous Monk on May 28, 2009 at 21:23 UTC
They're supposed to run on cygwin. Re: Cygwin test failures with Perl 5.8.7-RC1	[reply]
Re: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by Anonymous Monk on May 28, 2009 at 21:19 UTC
Which perl?	[reply]
Re^2: Cygwin Perl install - make test failed by spstansbury (Monk) on May 28, 2009 at 21:28 UTC
5.10.0	[reply]