note haoess <blockquote>On my perl-5.10 I had Test-Harness-2.64. I updated to version 3.10, and Math-Pari still builds and tests flawlessly for me.</blockquote> I investigated further, here's my report: With perl5.8.8 <c>make test</c> runs fine, with 5.10.0 (and blead) it doesn't. Both perls use the same version of [cpan://ExtUtils::Command::MM] (6.44) and [cpan://Test::Harness] (3.10). Furthermore I isolated the test file which seem to cause this strange error, it's <c>t/55_objets.t</c> (sic!). This test file uses <c>test_eng/Testout.pm</c>, which loads <c>pari-2.1.7/src/test/32/objets</c> (at least on my system). I reduced this file to <c> realprecision = 38 significant digits echo = 1 (on) ? truncate(1.7,&e) 1 ? \p57 realprecision = 57 significant digits ? length(divisors(1000)) 16 ? \q </c> Now we run the <c>t/5_objets.t</c> test file: <c>$ PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /opt/perl-33445/bin/perl5.11.0 "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/55_objets.t t/55_objets...... All 3 subtests passed Test Summary Report ------------------- Files=1, Tests=3, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr 0.00 sys + 0.04 cusr 0.02 csys = 0.06 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/1 test programs. 0/3 subtests failed. </c> That's all for today, maybe it could help the <c>Math::Pari</c> people to find the <a href="http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33959">bug</a>. -- Frank 672924 673174