AnyEvent (make test) fails on MS Windows

[Marc Lehmann]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Fulko Hew <fulko.hew at gmail.com> wrote:
> and I've downloaded and built Strawberry Perl v5.14.2) but
> when I attempt the 'make test' (for AnyEvent7.04) it fails many tests with:
> 
> Broken perl detected, skipping tests.
> Your perl interpreter is badly Broken. Child watchers
> will not work, ever.  Try upgrading to a newer perl or
> a working perl (cygwin's perl is known to work). ...

Are you sure it fails those tests? The messages indicate that the tests
have correctly detected your broken platform and should have skipped any
testing, because it would be futile.

> Some parts of AnyEvent seem to work, but the attached
> 'file watcher' app doesn't.

Why would you want to watch a file? For one thing, windows doesn't support
it in any way, and even if it would, it would not make any sense to do so,
files are already there, so you could just use perls built-in readline.

If you run with AnyEvent::Strict enabled (AE_STRICT=1 program) it should
have told you about that bug. It's highly recommended to be used when
developing programs.

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