Re: [ID 20020305.018] test failures with perl5.7.3 on FreeBSD 4.3

Message-ID: <20020305223049.GH1693@Bagpuss.unfortu.net>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15053

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 04c2e5d..2a080f6 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -2533,16 +2533,18 @@ Don't panic.  Read INSTALL 'make test' section instead.
 
 The subtests 11 and 12 sometimes fail and sometimes work.
 
-=head2 FreeBSD 4.5 fails lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t
+=head2 FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 fail lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t
 
-F<lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t> tests that "`` works" by running a
-a perl 1 liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl.
-It is failing on FreeBSD 4.5, but only when run as part of make test.
+F<lib/File/Spec/t/rel2abs2rel.t> tests that "`` works" by running a a perl 1
+liner in backticks, using "$^X" as the path to perl. It is known to be
+failing on FreeBSD 4.3, 4.4 and 4.5, but only when run as part of make test.
 This seems to be a kernel problem rather than perl - reading the symlink
 F</proc/curproc/file> returns "unknown" rather than the path to perl, and a
 kernel debugger reveals that variable C<numfullpathfail2> in
 F</usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_cache.c> is being incremented whenever
 F</proc/curproc/file> fails to return the perl executable's path.
+[If you find that if fails on other versions of FreeBSD, please use perlbug
+to report them to us. If you are able to fix the bug, even better.]
 
 =head2 HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured