vfsstream unit tests failing with hhvm

[tmotyl]

It would be nice to include vfsStream (https://github.com/mikey179/vfsStream , http://vfs.bovigo.org/) library tests in the hhvm parity check.
This is a widely used library for mocking filesystem, very useful for phpunit tests.

How to run the tests:
//get vfsStream
git clone https://github.com/mikey179/vfsStream.git
cd vfsStream
mkdir -p ~/.composer
composer install

//get phpunit
wget https://phar.phpunit.de/phpunit.phar

//run phpunit
hhvm phpunit.phar -c phpunit.xml.dist

current result:
Tests: 328, Assertions: 1135, Failures: 27, Errors: 15, Skipped: 14.
See https://gist.github.com/tmotyl/9326858 for more details

[fredemmott]

Thanks for reporting this. Feel free to submit a PR if you (or someone else reading this) gets to this before we do.

[tmotyl]

yeah, I would like to, but unfortunately right now you can't run test suite on ubuntu 13.10 :(
see #1936

[fredemmott]

We're tracking the Ubuntu issue in #1942 - using #1936 just to track the missing constant. 72ed649 will be backed out shortly, and you should be able to build if you revert that locally.

[scannell]

Is there still an action for us to take here? (The revert happened so you should be able to run the tests at least.)

[fredemmott]

Closing this is - we generally work on improving everything listed in the framework test runner, so there's no real action for us to take on this task. If you'd like vfsstream compatibility fixed sooner, the best way is to file separate issues for specific compatibility problems with isolated example code.