TEST 09_roundtrip.t fails in 5.40.0 RELEASE about perl5 HOT 2 OPEN

So that is annoying. The only way to get that info is to actually do the
install of the broken perl that can not pass a testsuite.

You can do `./perl -Ilib -V

I suspect this is because I always build perl "out of tree" and the
actual pristine sources from the tarball are always extracted as
root. That means that the sources can not be mangled by anyone or any
process. Seems to work great with things like GCC where nothing will
attempt to bork around with the source tree during a build or test.

Not so with PERL ?

I would consider that a bug. It's in a contributed module though, it should be fixed upstream.

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(Original post edited to distinguish code blocks from text.)

This ticket reports test failures in several different files. Problems with the following tests should first be reported upstream:

../cpan/Archive-Tar/t/09_roundtrip.t
    at https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Archive-Tar
../cpan/Pod-Simple/t/corpus.t
../cpan/Pod-Simple/t/htmlbat.t
    at https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/issues

If there's no satisfactory resolution upstream, you can re-file an issue here.

There is no real problem with the following test:

../cpan/autodie/t/version.t

The upstream maintainer is merely indicating that this test only needs to be run by the maintainer when preparing a CPAN release.

The following test file is the only one directly under the control of the maintainers of the Perl core distribution (Perl 5 Porters):

../dist/Storable/t/huge.t

The test file runs no tests if the user has not set the envvar PERL_TEST_MEMORY at all or only to a value of 4 or less. The file probably should do a better job of skipping tests that require much larger quantities of memory even when PERL_TEST_MEMORY has been defined by the user. Patches welcome.

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