errors building Gnome2-VFS-1.002 on Fedora Core 2

[david d zuhn <zoo stpaulterminal org>]

This is all on a Fedora Core 2 i386 system.  I've installed all of the
necessary prerequisites (so far):

  ExtUtils-Depends-0.202
  ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.03
  Glib-1.043
  Gtk2-1.043

and now while trying to install Gnome2-VFS-1.002, I get the following
errors during 'make test'.   All of these packages have been installed
with the usual 'perl Makefile.pl; make; make test; sudo make install'
process.

When I run this in a directory on local disk (ext3 filesystem), I get
one error:

  [/tmp/Gnome-VFS-1.002] make test
  make: Entering directory `/tmp/Gnome2-VFS-1.002'
  PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t 
t/GnomeVFS.............ok  t/GnomeVFSDirectory....NOK 8#     Failed test
(t/GnomeVFSDirectory.t at line 46)  #          got: '..'
  #     expected: '.'
  t/GnomeVFSDirectory....ok 26/26# Looks like you failed 1 tests of 26.
  t/GnomeVFSDirectory....dubious
          Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
  Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 153) line 1, near "'int'
 $__val"          (Missing operator before   $__val?)
  DIED. FAILED test 8
          Failed 1/26 tests, 96.15% okay
  t/GnomeVFSFileInfo.....ok
  t/GnomeVFSOps..........ok
  t/GnomeVFSURI..........ok
  t/GnomeVFSUtils........ok
  t/GnomeVFSXfer.........ok
  Failed Test           Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------  t/GnomeVFSDirectory.t    1   256    26    1   3.85%  8
  Failed 1/7 test scripts, 85.71% okay. 1/198 subtests failed, 99.49%
okay.


This is when I run in an NFS directory (Fedora Core 1 fileserver), I get
no errors but a couple of unusual warnings:

  $ make test
  make: Entering directory `/home/zoo/gtk2/tarball/Gnome2-VFS-1.002'
  PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
"test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t 
t/GnomeVFS.............ok  t/GnomeVFSDirectory....ok 26/26Urgh, couldn't
delete the scratch directory: Directory not empty  # Looks like your
test died just after 26.  t/GnomeVFSDirectory....dubious
          Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
  Scalar found where operator expected at (eval 153) line 1, near "'int'
 $__val"          (Missing operator before   $__val?)
          after all the subtests completed successfully
  t/GnomeVFSFileInfo.....ok
  t/GnomeVFSOps..........ok 44/44Urgh, couldn't delete the scratch
directory: Directory not empty  # Looks like your test died just after
44.  t/GnomeVFSOps..........dubious
          Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
          after all the subtests completed successfully
  t/GnomeVFSURI..........ok
  t/GnomeVFSUtils........ok
  t/GnomeVFSXfer.........ok
  Failed Test           Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
--------  t/GnomeVFSDirectory.t  255 65280    26    0   0.00%  ??
  t/GnomeVFSOps.t        255 65280    44    0   0.00%  ??
  Failed 2/7 test scripts, 71.43% okay. 0/198 subtests failed, 100.00%
okay.



Has this been seen before?  Any ideas on where to start the debugging? 
I don't know the Gnome software stack very well yet.


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david d zuhn,  Saint Paul, Minn.    http://stpaulterminal.org/