Re: TAP test breakage on MacOS X

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> make check-world dies ingloriously for me, like this:
>
> FWIW, it works fine for me on my Mac laptop, using the Perl 5.16.2 that
> comes standard with OSX 10.9.5. I did have to install IPC::Run from
> CPAN though.
>
>> # Failed test 'initdb options handling'
>> # at /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.12.5/Test/Builder.pm line 229.
>
> This output seems to be pretty clear proof that you're not using
> Apple's Perl. What is it exactly (where did you get it from)?
>
> Also, noticing that what you're using is evidently Perl 5.12, I'm
> wondering whether our TAP test scripts require a fairly new Perl version.
> I recall some of my Salesforce colleagues griping that the TAP scripts
> didn't work with older Perls.

I installed it via MacPorts.

[rhaas pgsql]$ which perl
/opt/local/bin/perl
[rhaas pgsql]$ perl -v

This is perl 5, version 12, subversion 5 (v5.12.5) built for
darwin-thread-multi-2level

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Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
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