Re: Git 2.25 and failed self tests on OS X

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 3, 2020, 11:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20200203110616.GB4153124@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8=-ht7D3CyM-YoJSfW3hueaWVp5WQz2+BJOFMjmt8aDsg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 06:00:18AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> I'm wondering if Perl is the problem. I had to cut-over to OpenSSL 1.1
> due to deprecation of 1.0.2. OpenSSL 1.1 increased Perl requirements,
> so now I have to build Perl, too. Previously I was not building Perl.
> 
> I'm installing Perl 5.30.1, but it is a minimal install. I only
> install Text::Template Test::More (plus whatever else Perl installs on
> its own from cspan). However I could not install HTTP::Daemon
> HTTP::Request. There's some bug in the cspan installer. It gets stuck
> on one package and tries to download/install it over and over again.
> 
> Do you know if Git is using one of Perl's Text:: packages for the test?

I don't see any perl at all in t3902. The failing "setup" test is all shell, and is literally just doing "echo stuff >$file_with_funny_chars" in a loop.

-Peff