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Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:02:08 +0100

On Monday 26 January 2015 08:12:40 Paul Hamadyk wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-01-23 at 15:22 +0100, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > Hmm, this looks as if you need a more recent (or perhaps less
> > recent?) version of the Perl Test::More. Which version of Perl (and
> > of EPICS base, BTW) do you have installed? Can you run the EPICS
> > base test suite (i.e. make runtests in the base directory)?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Ben
>
>  perl -v
>
> This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

The perl version is fine, I have been running the tests on a debian 4
with perl 5.8.8. But the version of Test::More that comes with these old
distributions does not yet have support for subtests, which is why you
get the strange error message.

If you want to run the compiler tests, you should install a more recent
version of Test::More. In RHEL the package is named perl-Test-Simple.
The simplest solution would be to install a backport for your distro (if
you can get your hands on one). Failing that, you could install it
manually via CPAN.

I think there is not much more I could do, except perhaps include a test
for the version of Test::More in the script and bail out if subtests are
not supported.

Cheers
Ben

> I'm using EPICS 3.14.12.3 on RHEL6 64 bit.
>
> These tests fail in directory "compiler". The other tests run
> successfully when started from the top level, test or validate.
>
> Paul.

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