Building Perl 5.8.8 on Mac OS X LeopardEdit
I decided to install Perl again in the hope of overcoming my problems trying to install SVK on Mac OS X Leopard.
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
tar xzvf perl-5.8.8.tar.gz
cd perl-5.8.8/
sh Configure -de
make
make test
There were 3 failed tests:
t/op/pwent................................FAILED at test 1
And:
ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog...................# Failed test 'syslog() should return true: '0''
# in ../ext/Sys/Syslog/t/syslog.t at line 109.
FAILED at test 84
And:
lib/locale................................FAILED at test 99
I the tried to get more information:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`
cd t
./perl harness
This yielded:
op/pwent....................................FAILED test 1
Failed 1/2 tests, 50.00% okay
And:
../lib/locale...............................ok 100/117# The following locales
#
# C C POSIX POSIX af_ZA af_ZA.ISO8859-1 af_ZA.ISO8859-15
# af_ZA.UTF-8 am_ET am_ET.UTF-8 be_BY be_BY.CP1131 be_BY.CP1251
# be_BY.ISO8859-5 be_BY.UTF-8 bg_BG bg_BG.CP1251 bg_BG.UTF-8
# ca_ES ca_ES.ISO8859-1 ca_ES.ISO8859-15 ca_ES.UTF-8 cs_CZ
# cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 cs_CZ.UTF-8 da_DK da_DK.ISO8859-1 da_DK.ISO8859-15
# da_DK.UTF-8 de_AT de_AT.ISO8859-1 de_AT.ISO8859-15
# de_AT.UTF-8 de_CH de_CH.ISO8859-1 de_CH.ISO8859-15
# de_CH.UTF-8 de_DE de_DE.ISO8859-1 de_DE.ISO8859-15
# de_DE.UTF-8 el_GR el_GR.ISO8859-7 el_GR.UTF-8 en_AU
# en_AU.ISO8859-1 en_AU.ISO8859-15 en_AU.US-ASCII en_AU.UTF-8
# en_CA en_CA.ISO8859-1 en_CA.ISO8859-15 en_CA.US-ASCII
# en_CA.UTF-8 en_GB en_GB.ISO8859-1 en_GB.ISO8859-15
# en_GB.US-ASCII en_GB.UTF-8 en_IE en_IE.UTF-8 en_NZ
# en_NZ.ISO8859-1 en_NZ.ISO8859-15 en_NZ.US-ASCII en_NZ.UTF-8
# en_US en_US.ISO8859-1 en_US.ISO8859-15 en_US.US-ASCII
# en_US.UTF-8 es_ES es_ES.ISO8859-1 es_ES.ISO8859-15
# es_ES.UTF-8 et_EE et_EE.ISO8859-15 et_EE.UTF-8 eu_ES
# eu_ES.ISO8859-1 eu_ES.ISO8859-15 eu_ES.UTF-8 fi_FI
# fi_FI.ISO8859-1 fi_FI.ISO8859-15 fi_FI.UTF-8 fr_BE
# fr_BE.ISO8859-1 fr_BE.ISO8859-15 fr_BE.UTF-8 fr_CA
# fr_CA.ISO8859-1 fr_CA.ISO8859-15 fr_CA.UTF-8 fr_CH
# fr_CH.ISO8859-1 fr_CH.ISO8859-15 fr_CH.UTF-8 fr_FR
# fr_FR.ISO8859-1 fr_FR.ISO8859-15 fr_FR.UTF-8 he_IL
# he_IL.UTF-8 hi_IN.ISCII-DEV hr_HR hr_HR.ISO8859-2 hr_HR.UTF-8
# hu_HU hu_HU.ISO8859-2 hu_HU.UTF-8 hy_AM hy_AM.ARMSCII-8
# hy_AM.UTF-8 is_IS is_IS.ISO8859-1 is_IS.ISO8859-15
# is_IS.UTF-8 it_CH it_CH.ISO8859-1 it_CH.ISO8859-15
# it_CH.UTF-8 it_IT it_IT.ISO8859-1 it_IT.ISO8859-15
# it_IT.UTF-8 ja_JP ja_JP.SJIS ja_JP.UTF-8 ja_JP.eucJP kk_KZ
# kk_KZ.PT154 kk_KZ.UTF-8 ko_KR ko_KR.CP949 ko_KR.UTF-8
# ko_KR.eucKR lt_LT lt_LT.ISO8859-13 lt_LT.ISO8859-4
# lt_LT.UTF-8 nl_BE nl_BE.ISO8859-1 nl_BE.ISO8859-15
# nl_BE.UTF-8 nl_NL nl_NL.ISO8859-1 nl_NL.ISO8859-15
# nl_NL.UTF-8 no_NO no_NO.ISO8859-1 no_NO.ISO8859-15
# no_NO.UTF-8 pl_PL pl_PL.ISO8859-2 pl_PL.UTF-8 pt_BR
# pt_BR.ISO8859-1 pt_BR.UTF-8 pt_PT pt_PT.ISO8859-1 pt_PT.ISO8859-15
# pt_PT.UTF-8 ro_RO ro_RO.ISO8859-2 ro_RO.UTF-8 ru_RU
# ru_RU.CP1251 ru_RU.CP866 ru_RU.ISO8859-5 ru_RU.KOI8-R
# ru_RU.UTF-8 sk_SK sk_SK.ISO8859-2 sk_SK.UTF-8 sl_SI
# sl_SI.ISO8859-2 sl_SI.UTF-8 sr_YU sr_YU.ISO8859-2 sr_YU.ISO8859-5
# sr_YU.UTF-8 sv_SE sv_SE.ISO8859-1 sv_SE.ISO8859-15
# sv_SE.UTF-8 tr_TR tr_TR.ISO8859-9 tr_TR.UTF-8 uk_UA
# uk_UA.ISO8859-5 uk_UA.KOI8-U uk_UA.UTF-8 zh_CN zh_CN.GB18030
# zh_CN.GB2312 zh_CN.GBK zh_CN.UTF-8 zh_CN.eucCN zh_HK
# zh_HK.Big5HKSCS zh_HK.UTF-8 zh_TW zh_TW.Big5 zh_TW.UTF-8
#
# tested okay.
#
# None of your locales were broken.
../lib/locale...............................FAILED test 99
Failed 1/117 tests, 99.15% okay
Note that the summary now shows only two failed tests, not three:
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
../lib/locale.t 117 1 0.85% 99
op/pwent.t 2 1 50.00% 1
59 tests and 242 subtests skipped.
Failed 2/996 test scripts, 99.80% okay. 2/117338 subtests failed, 100.00% okay.
So I tried running those tests individually:
perl op/pwent.t
Output:
1..2
# where /etc/passwd
# max = 25, n = 15, perfect = 0
#
# The failure of op/pwent test is not necessarily serious.
# It may fail due to local password administration conventions.
# If you are for example using both NIS and local passwords,
# test failure is possible. Any distributed password scheme
# can cause such failures.
#
# What the pwent test is doing is that it compares the 26 first
# entries of /etc/passwd
# with the results of getpwuid() and getpwnam() call. If it finds no
# matches at all, it suspects something is wrong.
#
not ok 1 # (not necessarily serious: run t/op/pwent.t by itself)
ok 2
So that is probably harmless enough. The other test:
cd ..
perl -T lib/locale.t
Output:
1..98
ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
ok 10
ok 11
ok 12
ok 13
ok 14
ok 15
ok 16
ok 17
ok 18
ok 19
ok 20
ok 21
ok 22
ok 23
ok 24
ok 25
ok 26
ok 27
ok 28
ok 29
ok 30
ok 31
ok 32
ok 33
ok 34
ok 35
ok 36
ok 37
ok 38
ok 39
ok 40
ok 41
ok 42
ok 43
ok 44
ok 45
ok 46
ok 47
ok 48
ok 49
ok 50
ok 51
ok 52
ok 53
ok 54
ok 55
ok 56
ok 57
ok 58
ok 59
ok 60
ok 61
ok 62
ok 63
ok 64
ok 65
ok 66
ok 67
ok 68
ok 69
ok 70
ok 71
ok 72
ok 73
ok 74
ok 75
ok 76
ok 77
ok 78
ok 79
ok 80
ok 81
ok 82
ok 83
ok 84
ok 85
ok 86
ok 87
ok 88
ok 89
ok 90
ok 91
ok 92
ok 93
ok 94
ok 95
ok 96
ok 97
ok 98
Note there were no failures this time.
I definitely prefer to have error-free tests before installing but in this case seeing as the warnings seem harmless enough and this is just a temporary install I decided to go ahead anyway:
unset DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
sudo make install
Curiously, the resulting perl binary is very different in size from the pre-installed one:
$ ll /usr/local/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root 1147784 Apr 27 14:01 /usr/local/bin/perl*
$ ll /usr/bin/perl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 46752 Mar 25 09:42 /usr/bin/perl*