When your bisect starts to go into perl-5.9.* territory `make -j4'

fails on Config.pm due to some race condition. This'll turn what would
otherwise be a bad/good report into skip.

diff --git a/pod/perlrepository.pod b/pod/perlrepository.pod
index 30d2cc2..65a9bef 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlrepository.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrepository.pod
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ testcase:
   # Correct makefile for newer GNU gcc
   perl -ni -we 'print unless /<(?:built-in|command)/' makefile x2p/makefile
   # if you just need miniperl, replace test_prep with miniperl
   # Correct makefile for newer GNU gcc
   perl -ni -we 'print unless /<(?:built-in|command)/' makefile x2p/makefile
   # if you just need miniperl, replace test_prep with miniperl

-  make -j4 test_prep
+  make test_prep

   [ -x ./perl ] || exit 125
   ./perl -Ilib ~/testcase.pl
   ret=$?
   [ -x ./perl ] || exit 125
   ./perl -Ilib ~/testcase.pl
   ret=$?