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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:50:29 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perl, second shot (was: Re: first shot perl)
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In-Reply-To: <3B82D612.40201@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:43:46PM -0400

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 05:43:46PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> WITH ntsec-harness i got these errors, i wonder why groups.t failed with 
>> ntsec in this previous build and failed not without ntsec.
>> Also dubious is the pragma/strict error.
>> One build before that i got a pragma/warnings error instead of pragma/strict.
>> 
>> Failed Test      Status Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> lib/glob-basic.t	               9    1  11.11%  8
>> op/groups.t     	               2    1  50.00%  1
>> pragma/strict.t 	              93    1   1.08%  21
>> 8 tests and 94 subtests skipped.
>> Failed 3/275 test scripts, 98.91% okay. 3/12830 subtests failed, 99.98% okay.
>> 
>> After that i patched into groups.t, but it changes nothing.
>
>Strange.  I'm willing to go ahead with this one, if it means having a 
>more proactive maintainer who's not MIA.  3 subtest failures 
>notwithstanding.  But eventually these should be investigated and squashed.

I remember group problems from back in the days when I was maintaining
a perl cygwin port (1997/1998).  I thought it was a getgroups problem.
But, then I thought this was fixed in cygwin for ntsec.

cgf