Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Why is my GUI hanging?

[Robert M. <ro...@th...>]

On 02/08/07, Robert May <rob...@us...> wrote:
> On 02/08/07, Jan Dubois <ja...@ac...> wrote:
> > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Robert May wrote:
> > > On 31/07/07, Robert May <rob...@us...> wrote:
> > > > I'll post another version as soon as I've shown that it tests clean
> > > > (hopefully tomorrow).
> >
> > I don't quite get the list of test failures.  Are you getting test failures
> > from just compiling the ActivePerl sources with `nmake && nmake test`?
>
> Yes.  VC6 (although using the .h files from a more recent SDK).
> Win2k.  I don't build perl from source very often, but I don't think
> I've ever had a completely clean test run with either ActivePerl or
> the 'official' source.

Turns out I had a broken type.exe on my path that caused lines like
my $x = `type somefile`;
to fail.   Remove it, and I get a clean bill of health on the tests.

That's that one solved.

Regards,
Rob.