Re: ExtUtils::PkgConfig test failures on OpenBSD

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de>]

On 08.12.2012 00:49, Brian Manning wrote:
> I had some tuits last night and dug into the problem.  You know that
> old joke that about your job being replaced with a Perl script?  Well,
> on OpenBSD, the pkg-config binary from freedesktop.org [2] actually
> has been replaced with a Perl script [3].  The OpenBSD Perl script
> rewrite of the pkg-config binary is not honoring the --max-version
> command line switch, which causes one of the tests for this switch in
> ExtUtils::PkgConfig to fail.

I had often wondered what these failures were about.  Nice work tracking 
the problem down!

> My question here is, is the noise from this test worth adding a SKIP
> case for the tests in ExtUtils::PkgConfig on OpenBSD, or can we/should
> we just ignore the test failures until it's fixed upstream?

I agree with muppet here: if it's easy to do, we should skip the test.

Also, a word of warning in the docs about --max-version on OpenBSD would 
be nice.