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in thread CPAN newbie troubles

You're wrong, I'm afraid.

I have no idea what you're running, but it's obviously not my code. On linux with linux added to the list: 

$ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(
+0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" a.t
a.t .. skipped: OS unsupported. It may or may not work, but you won't 
+know since the tests are being skipped. Use at your own risk
Files=1, Tests=0,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  0.02 cusr 
+ 0.00 csys =  0.04 CPU)
Result: NOTESTS

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Clearly that would confuse would-be users.

I quote, again, from the CPAN Wiki (emphasis mine):

And for the third time, you never call BAIL_OUT on Windows because you never reach it.

Thanks for trying. Perhaps someone who is actually familiar with the process will have a good answer.

Are you saying my solution doesn't work? I seriously doubt that since I copied it from a well used module AND it's mentioned in the documentation you keep quoting.

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Re^6: CPAN newbie troubles
by oko1 (Deacon) on Jan 05, 2011 at 01:22 UTC
    And for the third time, you never call BAIL_OUT because you never reach it.

    And you're wrong again. I quote again, from my previous post (emphasis mine): 

    PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/ar
+ch')" t/*.t
t/Term-Menu-Hierarchical.t .. 1/2 Bailout called.  Further testing stopped:  OS unsupported
    Are you saying my solution doesn't work?

    No. I'm saying that you are clearly unfamiliar with the situation that I asked about. Unfortunately, you also appear to be desperately struggling not to be proven wrong - and I'm really not interested in that kind of unproductive tussling.

    In addition, I'm saying that my code works at least as well as yours for the purpose of working; this was never in question, it always worked. The problem is the collision with CPANtesters: I'm doing what's recommended, and not getting back the result that I'm supposed to get. You've been focusing on "fixing" my code (making it work), which it never needed - and you've never addressed the question that I asked, because you clearly don't know anything about it.

    I appreciate your technical competence in other areas of Perl, and I thank you for trying with this question as well. Now please, stop trying to "fix" my code. It doesn't need it. 

    -- 
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
 -- W. B. Yeats
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      I quote again,

      Just as irrelevant as the first time around. That's not the same output that you get from Windows.

      But you're right that I was wrong. While the first test is failing on Windows, 

      #   Failed test 'use Term::Menu::Hierarchical;'
#   at t/Term-Menu-Hierarchical.t line 9.
#     Tried to use 'Term::Menu::Hierarchical'.
#     Error:  POSIX::termios not implemented on this architecture at C
+:\strawberry\cpan\build\Term-Menu-Hierarchical-0.70-huc0DH\blib\lib/T
+erm/Menu/Hierarchical.pm line 18.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 2.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 4) line 2.

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      it's not preventing the BAIL_OUT from being executed. I'm so used to "BEGIN failed--compilation aborted" to being the end of the error chain. But it does continue on with 

      #   Failed test at t/Term-Menu-Hierarchical.t line 17.
Bailout called.  Further testing stopped:  OS unsupported
FAILED--Further testing stopped: OS unsupported
dmake.EXE:  Error code 255, while making 'test_dynamic'

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      So BAIL_OUT is working as intended. So why are you getting FAIL reports? Well, you're not. You're getting N/A reports. 

      Subject: NA Term-Menu-Hierarchical-0.70 v5.12.1 Windows (Win32)

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      Full report

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        So why are you getting FAIL reports? Well, you're not. You're getting N/A reports.

        Ah. That *is* useful - because I never received that particular email; the last one I got was still a FAIL rather than an NA (which is what I would have expected.) This does indeed handle my question (although now I need to go find out where that email went.) Thanks for doing the research; I hadn't realized that the info was available on the Web. That'll make troubleshooting this kind of problems a bit easier in the future. 

        -- 
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
 -- W. B. Yeats
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