On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:46:19PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> MakeMaker's find_perl() function fails to find ponie. The reason is its
> attempt to run ponie fails. The run is simply:
>
> my $check = `$path_to_ponie -le "require 5.0; print qq{VER_OK}"`
>
> when called inside find_perl nothing is returned. But this appears to happen
> intermitantly. To reproduce, download a copy of the ExtUtils-MakeMaker
> distribution. Run "ponie Makefile.PL verbose verbose". You'll see among
> the output:
>
> Checking /path/to/your/bin/ponie
> Executing /path/to/your/bin/ponie
> Result: ''
>
> $? >> 8 at that point is 66 (?!).
>
> This appears to only happen in the MakeMaker distribution. Makefile.PLs for
> other distributions work fine.
This seems to be a parrot bug of some sort. MM_Unix is running that test with
STDERR closed. Parrot fails to initialise if stderr is closed:
$ ./parrot examples/assembly/hello.pasm
Hello World
$ ./parrot examples/assembly/hello.pasm 2>&-
$ echo $?
66
( 2>&- closes stderr )
Exit code (again) is 66.
I don't know why parrot's implementation is currently like this, or what the
correct fix should be.
Nicholas Clark
