[Bioperl-l] Please do not commit without testing

[Chris Fields]

On Nov 24, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Chris Fields wrote:
>> On Nov 23, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:
>> ...
>>> It /is/ in the INSTALL docs. See the 'THE TEST SYSTEM' section.  
>>> (It's
>>> also on the wiki version of same.)
>> Okay, but I find the Windows page hasn't been updated (still shows  
>> nmake).  Everything needs to be changed, not just the UNIX pages
>
> I don't know what to say for the windows docs. I can't even get
>
> perl -V
>
> to work on my Windows machine:
>
> &Config::AUTOLOAD failed on Config::launcher at C:/Perl/lib/ 
> Config.pm line 72.
>
> The Build.PL scripts fails similarly:
> &Config::AUTOLOAD failed on Config::launcher at C:/Perl/lib/ 
> Config.pm line 72.
> &Config::AUTOLOAD failed on Config::launcher at C:/Perl/lib/ 
> Config.pm line 72.
> &Config::AUTOLOAD failed on Config::launcher at C:/Perl/lib/ 
> Config.pm line 72.
> &Config::AUTOLOAD failed on Config::launcher at C:/Perl/lib/ 
> Config.pm line 72.
> Can't locate the perl binary used to run this script in (C:\Perl 
> \bin C:\Perl\bin
>  C:\Perl\bin . C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo 3.5 C:\Perl\bin  
> C:\WINDOWS\sy
> stem32 C:\WINDOWS C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem C:\Program Files\ATI  
> Technologies\ATI
> .ACE)
>
> I took it that you had no problems? Should I just make the Windows  
> docs similar to the Unix ones? (Or can you do the appropriate update?)

No, everything worked on my machine.  I'll try making the necessary  
changes as soon as I can, but it won't be today.

Christopher Fields
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab of Dr. Robert Switzer
Dept of Biochemistry
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign