Hello Ellies, yes, downloading https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/M/MC/MCAST/Test-Unit-0.25.tar.gz , unpacking, applying the patches from https://sources.debian.org/patches/libtest-unit-perl/0.25-7/ , «perl Makefile.PL» , «make install», and eventually running «make -Ccassandane», made all the tests pass.
Greetings Дилян -----Original Message----- From: ellie timoney <el...@fastmail.com> Reply-To: Devel <devel@cyrus.topicbox.com> To: Cyrus Developers (Public List) <devel@cyrus.topicbox.com> Subject: Re: Does Cassandane run with Perl 5.38.2? Date: 04/03/2024 01:36:21 AM Hi Дилян , Apparently, support for "defined(@array)" was removed from perl way back in 2015... Turns out the reason Test::Unit has been continuing to work all this time for us with recent perls (I have 5.36.0) is because we've been using the Debian libtest-unit-perl package rather than getting it direct from CPAN, and Debian have been patching it to keep it working -- https://sources.debian.org/patches/libtest-unit-perl/0.25-7/ I imagine other distros have probably been doing the same, so you might be able to get Test::Unit working if you install it from a distro package rather than CPAN. If your distro doesn't have a package for it, you might be able to manually apply Debian's patches to the CPAN sources. Cheers, ellie On Wed, 3 Apr 2024, at 6:34 AM, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > Hello Ellie, > > > Did you upgrade to perl 5.38.2 yourself, or is it being shipped by one of > > the distros these days? > > I upgraded myself. > > Greetings > Дилян > > -----Original Message----- > From: ellie timoney <el...@fastmail.com> > Reply-To: Devel <devel@cyrus.topicbox.com> > To: cyrus devel <devel@cyrus.topicbox.com> > Subject: Re: Does Cassandane run with Perl 5.38.2? > Date: 04/01/2024 11:49:49 PM > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, at 10:49 PM, Дилян Палаузов wrote: > > t/all_tests.t ..... Can't use 'defined(@array)' (Maybe you should just > > omit the defined()?) at /root/.cpan/build/Test-Unit-0.25-2/blib/l > > ib/Test/Unit/TestCase.pm line 106. > > > > Compilation failed in require at > > /root/.cpan/build/Test-Unit-0.25-2/blib/lib/Test/Unit/TestSuite.pm line > > 15. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > > /root/.cpan/build/Test-Unit-0.25-2/blib/lib/Test/Unit/TestSuite.pm line > > 15. > > > > [...] > > > > Test-Unit-0.25 was released in 2005. Is the problem that I am using too > > new version of Perl, and for this reason I cannot install > > Test-Unit-0.25, or I do not need Test::Unit::TestRunner (to solve the > > base empty package), or is it something different? > > That looks to me like Test::Unit's own test suite is using an old > experimental perl feature that I guess 5.38.2 no longer supports > ("defined(@array)"), and since its tests can't be run, cpan won't > install it. > > I think cpan has an argument to bypass the testing, so you might be > able to use that to get it installed. Though if the tests use that > feature, the library itself probably does too, in which case it won't > work even if it does install okay. > > Interesting problem... we might need to package up our own version of > Test::Unit that fixes it to not use language features that don't exist > anymore. I don't see us being able to remove it from Cassandane easily. > > Did you upgrade to perl 5.38.2 yourself, or is it being shipped by one > of the distros these days? > > Cheers, > > ellie > ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Devel Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/T5ac61e0683eda69a-M1d3d023c39e843c16b842e09 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/devel/subscription
