From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 18:42: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B8F137B420 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:41:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-008dcwashp184.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.224] helo=moo.holy.cow) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16R2V1-0000i9-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:41:56 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AA56050B8A; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:43:54 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:43:54 -0500 From: parv To: f-q Subject: significance of locale test failure (lang/perl5) Message-ID: <20020117024354.GA82816@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020110174049.GA60280@moo.holy.cow> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i had posted this to -ports initially and cc'd to tobez@freebsd; after not getting any response since jan 10, i will try my luck on -questions. freebsd version is 4.5-prerelease (2002.01.06.17.36.09 UTC). after cvsup of ports on jan. 10, test 116 (locale) was failed. below is the output from "lang/perl5/work/perl-5.6.1/t/perl harness"... pragma/locale.......# The following locales # # C POSIX cs_CZ.ISO8859-2 de_AT.ISO8859-1 de_CH.ISO8859-1 # de_DE.ISO8859-1 en_AU.ISO8859-1 en_CA.ISO8859-1 # en_GB.ISO8859-1 # en_US.ISO8859-1 fi_FI.ISO8859-1 hr_HR.ISO8859-2 # hu_HU.ISO8859-2 # it_CH.ISO8859-1 it_IT.ISO8859-1 ja_JP.eucJP lt_LT.ISO8859-4 # nl_BE.ISO8859-1 nl_NL.ISO8859-1 no_NO.ISO8859-1 # pl_PL.ISO8859-2 # ru_RU.ISO8859-5 ru_RU.KOI8-R ru_SU.KOI8-R sl_SI.ISO8859-2 # sv_SE.ISO8859-1 zh_CN.eucCN zh_TW.Big5 # # tested okay. # # The following locales # # de_AT.ISO8859-15 de_CH.ISO8859-15 de_DE.ISO8859-15 # en_AU.ISO8859-15 en_CA.ISO8859-15 en_GB.ISO8859-15 # en_US.ISO8859-15 fi_FI.ISO8859-15 it_CH.ISO8859-15 # it_IT.ISO8859-15 nl_BE.ISO8859-15 nl_NL.ISO8859-15 # no_NO.ISO8859-15 sv_SE.ISO8859-15 # # had problems. # FAILED test 116 Failed 1/116 tests, 99.14% okay ...all other tests were ok/skipped. what is the significance of this failure? can i still install perl w/ the impression that "there may be problems w/ ISO8859-15 locales if i try do anything w/ them"? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message