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david at cantrell

Nov 27, 2007, 4:58 AM


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RC2 test failure: NetBSD/Alpha (was: RC1 build failure)

> > > > $ ./perl ../lib/Net/hostent.t
> > > > 1..7
> > > > ok 1 - use Net::hostent;
> > > > not ok 2 - gethost('localhost')
> The failing test checks the definedness of the return value of
> gethost(), not its value.
> Does the built-in gethostbyaddr() return undef too ?

I assume you mean gethostbyname? Yeah, that's undef in RC2 (built with
threads).

With a version of perl at patch 31856 (built *without* threads) it
returns a sane-looking array.

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RC2 test failure: NetBSD/Alpha (was: RC1 build failure) david at cantrell Nov 27, 2007, 4:58 AM
    Re: RC2 test failure: NetBSD/Alpha (was: RC1 build failure) rgarciasuarez at gmail Nov 27, 2007, 5:20 AM
    RC2 test failure: NetBSD/Alpha (was: RC1 build failure) david at cantrell Nov 27, 2007, 5:55 AM
    Re: RC2 test failure: NetBSD/Alpha (was: RC1 build failure) david at cantrell Nov 27, 2007, 6:28 AM

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