Re^3: Compile PERL from source on Windows

[Anonymous Monk]

If you build from source regularly, do you mind sharing the secret sauce?

There is no secret sauce.

Look at Porting/pod_lib.pl

Look at pod/perldelta.pod

Compare what you have to what is online http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.16.2/MANIFEST

    my @want =
        $contents =~ /perldelta - what is new for perl v(5)\.(\d+)\.(\
+d+)\n/;
    die "Can't extract version from $filename" unless @want;

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.2

There is no way for that to fail, unless perldelta is empty

Why is your perldelta empty?

[MGoBlue]

Hello... thanks for the reply!

My perldelta.pod is not empty.

In my either my extracted perldelta.pod and the manifest (http://search.cpan.org/src/RJBS/perl-5.16.3/pod/perldelta.pod). The files are the same. I do not see an entry which says:

perldelta - what is new for perl v5.16.3

Rather, that line is found on the description page for that file.

pod_lib.pl and the manifest (http://search.cpan.org/src/RJBS/perl-5.16.3/Porting/pod_lib.pl) are the same too.

[Anonymous Monk]

Hmm, here is a stupid idea, change \n in regex to  [\r\n]+

[MGoBlue]

That worked!!! That fixed the problem with pod_lib.pl.

nmake test throws a fatal error on nmake test though. Here's where we start getting into my lack of experience though. I don't know what to do with these tests. Here's the output from the command line:

Test Summary Report
-------------------
porting/customized.t                                            (Wstat
+: 0 Tests:
 13 Failed: 13)
  Failed tests:  1-13
porting/pod_rules.t                                             (Wstat
+: 0 Tests:
 4 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  2-4
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 7 tests but ran 4.
porting/regen.t                                                 (Wstat
+: 0 Tests:
 31 Failed: 25)
  Failed tests:  7-31
../cpan/CGI/t/tmpdir.t                                          (Wstat
+: 0 Tests:
 9 Failed: 0)
  TODO passed:   3-9
../cpan/CGI/t/upload.t                                          (Wstat
+: 6400 Tes
ts: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 25
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
../cpan/CGI/t/uploadInfo.t                                      (Wstat
+: 6400 Tes
ts: 0 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 25
  Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
../cpan/HTTP-Tiny/t/150_post_form.t                             (Wstat
+: 1536 Tes
ts: 12 Failed: 6)
  Failed tests:  2, 5, 8, 10-12
  Non-zero exit status: 6
../cpan/Time-HiRes/t/usleep.t                                   (Wstat
+: 768 Test
s: 6 Failed: 3)
  Failed tests:  3-4, 6
  Non-zero exit status: 3
../cpan/podlators/t/text-encoding.t                             (Wstat
+: 65280 Te
sts: 1 Failed: 0)
  Non-zero exit status: 255
  Parse errors: Bad plan.  You planned 7 tests but ran 1.
Files=2320, Tests=528185, 1690 wallclock secs (53.33 usr +  5.70 sys =
+ 59.03 CPU
)
Result: FAIL
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '..\perl.exe' : return code '0x32'
Stop.