Hello,
It appears that on the latest version of Cygwin's Perl, Perl modules with
regression tests (for example, ones you can download from CPAN) fail "make
test" on every other test. I did some experimentation and this appears to
happen only if the modules are in a subdirectory (typically "lib") rather
than in the install root.
How to reproduce:
* Upgrade to latest versions of all Cygwin packages (probably
Perl is the only relevant one)
* Download any CPAN module (or create a Perl module) whose files
are in a "lib" subdirectory. Lingua::EN::Inflect is an arbitrary
example of one that is unlikely to be already installed.
* Run through the usual Perl install steps:
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
* Observe that "make test" fails on every other test (odd numbered
runs, apparently).
I have reduced this breakage to the smallest possible test case:
http://www.zeuscat.com/andrew/src/TestModule.tar.gz
For some reason, this doesn't appear to break modules that are tested
under the CPAN shell ("make test" passes for modules built that way).
The Perl package is 5.8.7-2. Here is the output of uname -srm:
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) i686
I and my co-workers have reproduced this on several different computers,
all running Windows XP.
Humbly,
Andrew
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