perl 5.34 test failures on musl and i686 (linux)

[dkwo]

I'm packaging it from https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.34.0.tar.gz and I see a few test failures:
on x86_64

../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t                                          (Wstat: 0 Tests: 6 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  10
  Parse errors: Tests out of sequence.  Found (10) but expected (6)
                Bad plan.  You planned 10 tests but ran 6.

on i686

../ext/POSIX/t/math.t                                              (Wstat: 256 Tests: 151 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  129
  Non-zero exit status: 1
../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t                                          (Wstat: 0 Tests: 9 Failed: 0)
  Parse errors: Tests out of sequence.  Found (7) but expected (6)
                Tests out of sequence.  Found (8) but expected (7)
                Tests out of sequence.  Found (9) but expected (8)
                Tests out of sequence.  Found (10) but expected (9)
                Bad plan.  You planned 10 tests but ran 9.

and on x86_64-musl

run/locale.t                                                       (Wstat: 0 Tests: 40 Failed: 2)
  Failed tests:  38-39
../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t                                          (Wstat: 0 Tests: 6 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  10
  Parse errors: Tests out of sequence.  Found (10) but expected (6)
                Bad plan.  You planned 10 tests but ran 6.
../lib/locale.t                                                    (Wstat: 0 Tests: 682 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  450

Can I safely skip these tests, or is there something to be concerned?
Thanks.

[Leont]

These should not fail. You don't mention anything about your build environment or platform, but given you mention musl I'm guessing you're dealing with some kind of Linux.

[dkwo]

Yes, I'm on Linux, more precisely Void Linux.
Here's the pr to upate perl void-linux/void-packages#31635
which fails those tests on x86_64 and i686 arch only.
You can see the template used in the first commit, and build style at https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/blob/master/common/build-style/gnu-configure.sh

[Leont]

It would help to have the output of the failing test, e.g. by running PERL_CORE=1 ./perl -Ilib lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t

[dkwo]

This failure seems to go away if I first build all the related packages, and then test perl.
Let me do a few more checks, and report.

[dkwo]

I can confirm the lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t test now passes.

If I do what you suggest with locale on musl, I get instead

=> perl-5.34.0_1: running do_check ...
"-T" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line at lib/locale.t line 1.
=> ERROR: perl-5.34.0_1: do_check: 'PERL_CORE=1 perl -Ilib lib/locale.t' exited with 255
=> ERROR:   in do_check() at srcpkgs/perl/template:193

How can I test for the failed locale test on musl?

[Leont]

How can I test for the failed locale test on musl?

As the error message suggest, you need to add a -T argument to perl for it to be able to run that test: PERL_CORE=1 ./perl -T -Ilib t/run/locale.t

[dkwo]

Both on x86_64-musl:

PERL_CORE=1 ./perl -T -Ilib lib/locale.t
not ok 450 variable set to setlocale("invalid locale name") is considered uninitialized

and

PERL_CORE=1 ./perl -T -Ilib t/run/locale.t
not ok 38 - In setting complicated invalid LC_ALL, final individ category doesn't need a ';'
# Failed test 38 - In setting complicated invalid LC_ALL, final individ category doesn't need a ';' at ./test.pl line 1077
#      got "Can\'t fix broken locale name \"LC_COLLATE=foo_BAR\" at - line 3."
# expected ""
# PROG:
#                 use locale;
#                 use POSIX;
#                 POSIX::setlocale(LC_ALL, "LC_COLLATE=foo_BAR;LC_CTYPE=foo_BAR;LC_MESSAGES=foo_BAR;LC_MONETARY=foo_BAR;LC_NUMERIC=foo_BAR");
# STATUS: 65280
not ok 39 - In setting complicated valid LC_ALL, final individ category doesn't need a ';'
# Failed test 39 - In setting complicated valid LC_ALL, final individ category doesn't need a ';' at ./test.pl line 1077
#      got "Can\'t fix broken locale name \"LC_COLLATE=Afrikaans\" at - line 3."
# expected ""
# PROG:
#                 use locale;
#                 use POSIX;
#                 POSIX::setlocale(LC_ALL, "LC_COLLATE=Afrikaans;LC_CTYPE=Afrikaans;LC_MESSAGES=Afrikaans;LC_MONETARY=Afrikaans;LC_NUMERIC=Afrikaans");
# STATUS: 65280

[khwilliamson]

On 7/22/21 1:02 PM, dkwo wrote: Both on x86_64-musl: |PERL_CORE=1 ./perl -T -Ilib lib/locale.t not ok 450 variable set to setlocale("invalid locale name") is considered uninitialized | —

In config.h which does the entry look like: /*#define SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME / **/ or #define SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME /**/

[dkwo]

I can see #define HAS_SETLOCALE /**/ /*#define SETLOCALE_ACCEPTS_ANY_LOCALE_NAME / **/

[dkwo]

Do I need to provide more data to debug the musl issue?

[dkwo]

It appears the remaning errors go away if we use Configure instead of configure.

[jkeenan]

It appears the remaning errors go away if we use Configure instead of configure.

Thanks for getting back to us. Closing ticket.