[KinoSearch] perl Build.PL error

[Marvin Humphrey]

On Jan 27, 2008, at 9:28 PM, Peter Karman wrote:

>> I started a PerlMonks thread about smoke testing CPAN distros:
>>   http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=663432
>
> too bad that thread seems to have stalled.

It stalled, but I think that's because the plan I laid out in the  
original post was sufficiently sane that no one felt compelled to  
correct it.  :)  It's a simple enough approach -- probably simple  
enough that there's no point to modularizing it  -- which is why  
nobody's got a module to point me at.  :)

The only hard thing is screen scraping valgrind's output.

> I hacked this little test script together just now and set it up on  
> a local box. Marvin, would you like a nightly cron run and mail  
> directly to you?

That would be great.  Thanks!

It might be even better if it only emailed upon failure.

Can I commit the script as $KS_SVN_TRUNK/devel/bin/smoke.pl ?

With slight modifications (a config file, probably using JSON::XS),  
Henry could run it as well.

> I'd also love to get valgrind running, if you can point me at how  
> you typically run it.

What I do is invoke this set of commands from $SVN_TRUNK_ROOT/perl ...

    $ export PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2
    $ /usr/local/debugperl/bin/perl5.8.8 ../devel/bin/valgrind_test.plx

... and then manually inspect the valgrind_test.log file that it  
generates, using vim.  I scrunch up my terminal window and search  
first for "ERROR SUMMARY",  then "LEAK SUMMARY", hitting the "n" key  
to keep fast forwarding; as the reports skip by, I look to make sure  
that I see nothing but zeros.  The process doesn't take long if the  
tests are clean, even though there are around 100 of them.

To run the script need a DEBUGGING perl, and you may also need a  
suppressions file to get sensible results.   We'll have to set up  
some kind of parser to machine-read valgrind's output if I'm not  
checking it directly.

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/



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