Any ideas about this test failure for Time::HiRes ?
$ /home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/bin/prove -v -d t/HiRes.t
# $Test::Harness::Switches:
# 1 tests to run
# Running: /home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/bin/perl t/HiRes.t
t/HiRes....1..28
ok 1
# I am process 10829, starting the timer process
ok 2
ok 3
# I am timer process 10830
ok 4
ok 5
ok 6
ok 7
ok 8
ok 9
ok 10
ok 11
ok 12
# tick = 1, one = 1109768844, two = 1109768844, three = 1109768844
ok 13
# tick = 3, one = 1109768844, two = 1109768844, three = 1109768844
ok 14
# s = 14.7198493480682, n = 100, s/n = 0.147198493480682
# time...1109768844.15081
ok 15
# sleep...0.504138
ok 16
# Tick! 4 0.309948
# Select returned! 4 0.310304
# 0.896565333333333
# Tick! 3 0.619858
# Select returned! 3 0.62014
# 0.793286666666667
# Tick! 2 0.929928
# Select returned! 2 0.930208
# 0.689930666666667
# Tick! 1 1.239682
# Select returned! 1 1.239894
# 0.586702
# Tick! 0 1.54969
# Select returned! 0 1.549903
# 0.483365666666667
ok 17 # 0
# setitimer:
ok 18
# getitimer: 0 0
# getitimer: 0 0
ok 19
ok 20 # 1.30389714241028 went by while sleeping 1.5, ratio 1.130806.
not ok 21 # 0.999860048294067 went by while sleeping 1.5, ratio 1.333498.
ok 22 # skipped
ok 23 # skipped
ok 24
ok 25
ok 26
ok 27
ok 28 # skipped
# I am process 10829, terminating the timer process 10830
FAILED test 21
Failed 1/28 tests, 96.43% okay (less 3 skipped tests: 24 okay, 85.71%)
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
t/HiRes.t 28 1 3.57% 21
3 subtests skipped.
Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/28 subtests failed, 96.43% okay.
$ uname -a
SunOS oplss0004 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
$ /home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 6) configuration:
Platform:
osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi-64int
uname='sunos oplss0004 5.6 generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-enterprise '
config_args='-Dprefix=/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6 -Dcc=gcc -Dprivlib=/home/shahsag/install/per
+l/5.8.6/lib -Darchlib=/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib -Dsiteprefix=/home/shahsag/install/perl
+/5.8.6 -Dsitelib=/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib -Dsitearch=/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/
+lib -Dusethreads -Duseperlio -Duse64bitint -Dloclibpth=/home/shahsag/lib /home/shahsag/install/bin
+utils/intall/lib -d'
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURC
+E -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
optimize='-O',
cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.2 19991024 (release)', gccosandvers='solaris2.6'
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/home/shahsag/lib '
libpth=/home/shahsag/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib /usr/local/lib
libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc
libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/home/shahsag/lib'
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONT
+EXT
Built under solaris
Compiled at Mar 1 2005 10:58:45
@INC:
/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib
/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib
/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib
/home/shahsag/install/perl/5.8.6/lib
.