t/08_core.t fails, due to different die message about ipc-system-simple

[jkeenan]

Additional CPANtesters reports of this problem:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/758b5294-3a33-11ea-90e5-674a1f24ea8f (ISS version 1.25, perl-5.8.9)
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/fa0ba5f6-3e74-11ea-9eba-37761f24ea8f (ISS version 1.26-TRIAL, perl-5.8.9)

[jkeenan]

I'm somewhat stumped on this intermittent test failure in IPC-System-Simple t/08_core.t. I can't locate the source of the error message: died to signal "ABRT". That syntax -- "died to" -- is not standard English but so far my DDG search hasn't turned anything up.

[karenetheridge]

https://metacpan.org/release/IPC-System-Simple/source/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm#L62

[jkeenan]

https://metacpan.org/release/IPC-System-Simple/source/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm#L62

Thanks. I think the problem here is not mainly in IPC::System::Simple but in perl-5.8.9. See posting on perl5-porters list.

[jkeenan]

OTOH, here is a CPANtesters report for IPC-System-Simple v1.26 on Linux against perl-5.8.9 wherein t/08 is not skipped (due to absence of BSD::Resource) and which gets PASS.

http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b49a4f66-3f52-11ea-8e53-d4801f24ea8f

[jkeenan]

https://metacpan.org/release/IPC-System-Simple/source/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm#L62

Thanks. I think the problem here is not mainly in IPC::System::Simple but in perl-5.8.9. See posting on perl5-porters list.

To which posting Zefram replied here.

[eserte]

So would the following diff fix the problem? (it does on my debian/stretch smoker with perl 5.8.9 installed)

diff --git a/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm b/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm
index 52ef556..ad71047 100644
--- a/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm
+++ b/lib/IPC/System/Simple.pm
@@ -531,13 +531,13 @@ sub _process_child_error {
 
        my $coredump = WCOREDUMP($child_error);
 
-        # There's a bug in perl 5.10.0 where if the system
+        # There's a bug in perl 5.8.9 and 5.10.0 where if the system
         # does not provide a native WCOREDUMP, then $? will
         # never contain coredump information.  This code
         # checks to see if we have the bug, and works around
         # it if needed.
 
-        if ($] >= 5.010 and not $NATIVE_WCOREDUMP) {
+        if ($] >= 5.008009 and not $NATIVE_WCOREDUMP) {
             $coredump ||= WCOREDUMP( ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE} );
         }
 

[jkeenan]

Works for me! Now part of CPAN version 1.29, hot off the keyboard.

Thanks again.
Jim Keenan