On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Thomas Fanghaenel
<tfanghaenel@salesforce.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The tests weren't running for me at all on MacOS X, because I was
>> missing some prerequisite. So I installed it, and now they promptly
>> fail:
>>
>> ok 2 - initdb --version
>> 1..2
>> ok 1 - initdb with invalid option nonzero exit code
>> ok 2 - initdb with invalid option prints error message
>> # Looks like your test exited with 256 just after 2.
>> not ok 3 - initdb options handling
>
> I've had the same issue. The error doesn't seem to come from a failed
> test, but from within 'prove' itself. Installing Perl 5.18 via
> Homebrew, and setting
> PROVE="<path-to-your-cellar>/perl518/5.18.2/prove" at configure time
> seems to help avoid this particular problem. So I did not attempt any
> further diagnosis of the root cause.
Mmph. Well, I don't want to install a non-default Perl on my system
just to make these tests pass, and I don't think that should be a
requirement.
(But thanks for the information.)
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