Re^3: Polite way to ask status of bug regarding Time::HiRes and newer versions of Perl

[jimhallsun]

Is there someone we should let know? Or do you think this will just sort in a reasonable amount of time?

[1nickt]

I think it is definitely worth filing a bug report, since the failures in stat.tseem to be unreported at this point. https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Time-HiRes.

[jimhallsun]

Apologies I did not cite the root bug, but where the discussion about incorporating the fix was elaborated on. For completeness here is the actual source bug that does not involve threaded perl:

https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128972

This bug is a match for me. I have not hit the bug you are seeing yet. So I should not file.

Last question: for your bug - did you upgrade Time::HiRes prior to building perl? Trying to confirm that is how I should do things with perlbrew.

[1nickt]

Hm, so your build is failing with the

HiRes.xs:945:15: error: use of undeclared identifier 'darwin_time_mute
+x'
  MUTEX_INIT(&darwin_time_mutex);

failure?

There's no way that I know of to upgrade a module before building Perl. That doesn't make sense to me. What I did most recently (bear in mind I am on Sierra):

$ perlbrew install perl-5.26.2
...

$ perlbrew use 5.26.2

$ perl -MTime::HiRes -E 'say $Time::HiRes::VERSION'
1.9741

$ cpanm https://cpan.metacpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/Time-HiRes-1.975
+8.tar.gz
...

Looking for stat() subsecond timestamps...
Trying struct stat st_atimespec.tv_nsec...found.
Trying struct stat st_atimensec...NOT found.
Trying struct stat st_atime_n...NOT found.
Trying struct stat st_atim.tv_nsec...NOT found.
Trying struct stat st_uatime...NOT found.
You seem to have subsecond timestamp reading.
(Your struct stat has them, but the filesystems must help.)

...

#   Failed test at t/stat.t line 35.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[8] = '1525293104'
#     $expected->[8] = '1525293103'

#   Failed test at t/stat.t line 35.
#     Structures begin differing at:
#          $got->[8] = '1525293105'
#     $expected->[8] = '1525293104'
# Looks like you failed 2 tests of 43.
t/stat.t ..........
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
Failed 2/43 subtests
    (less 1 skipped subtest: 40 okay)

...

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/stat.t        (Wstat: 512 Tests: 43 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  13, 34
  Non-zero exit status: 2
Files=12, Tests=107, 27 wallclock secs ( 0.06 usr  0.03 sys + 14.64 cu
+sr  0.18 csys = 14.91 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/12 test programs. 2/107 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

[jimhallsun]

Ah! Ok, I see what you are doing! I guess I would force install a copy of 5.26.2 and then cpanm the latest Time::HighRes. Thank you so much for the assist.