process isolation does not work on Windows 7 x64?

[Bouke]

Trying out PHPUnit 3.5 got me confused for two days. First, I tried to add new tests for some new models I created in Symfony2 PR3's sandbox, which failed with a weird error:

RuntimeException: PHP Parse error: parse error in C:\(...)\symony2_pr3\- on line 131 (notice the \- at the end of the path)

Thinking it was related to Symfony, I left it there. Today, I wanted to introduce PHPUnit into another (non-Symfony) project. Eventually, I ran into the same error:

RuntimeException: PHP Parse error: parse error in C:\(...)\MyProject\- on line 141 (again, notice the \- at the end of the path)

After some trial-and-error, I removed processIsolation="true" from phpunit.xml, and all worked!

I tried debugging the error, but even using xdebug's profiler I wasn't able to locate the origin of the error.

[whatthejeff]

Could you provide the exact command you are using to execute this test? Also, it would be helpful if you could provide your configuration file and a simple test case that reproduces this error.

[whatthejeff]

I was able to get process isolation working on Windows 7 (x86-64) with PHP 5.3.2 and PHPUnit 3.5.0RC2, so any extra information you can provide would be really helpful.

[Bouke]

This bug is a dupe of #14. The bug originates in PHP (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52911) and a workaround is proposed in http://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/pull/41.