Re: Test t9500 fails if Time::HiRes is missing

["Jakub Narębski" <jnareb@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 05:50, Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> wrote:
>>
>> t9500-gitweb-standalone-no-errors fails: Git 1.7.9.rc2/1.7.8.4, RHEL
>> 6.2, Perl 5.10.1.  Reverting 3962f1d756ab41c1d180e35483d1c8dffe51e0d1
>> fixes it.  The commit expects Time::HiRes to be present, but RedHat
>> has split it out to a separate RPM perl-Time-HiRes.  Better add a
>> comment about that, so it doesn't get re-reverted.
>>
>> Or pacify the test and expect gitweb@RHEL-users to install the RPM:
>>
>> --- git-1.7.9.rc2/t/gitweb-lib.sh~
>> +++ git-1.7.9.rc2/t/gitweb-lib.sh
>> @@ -113,4 +113,9 @@
>>        test_done
>>  }
>>
>> +perl -MTime::HiRes -e 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
>> +       skip_all='skipping gitweb tests, Time::HiRes module not available'
>> +       test_done
>> +}
>> +
>>  gitweb_init
>
> [Adding Jakub to CC]
>
> This doesn't actually fix the issue, it only sweeps it under the rug
> by making the tests pass, gitweb will still fail to compile on Red
> Hat once installed.
>
> I think the right solution is to partially revert
> 3962f1d756ab41c1d180e35483d1c8dffe51e0d1, but add a comment in the
> code indicating that it's to deal with RedHat's broken fork of Perl.
>
> However even if it's required in an eval it might still fail at
> runtime in the reset_timer() function, which'll need to deal with it
> too.

I'll try to send a fix today.  Time::HiRes is needed only for optional timing
info.

-- 
Jakub Narebski