Re: [PATCH v1] Travis: also test on 32-bit Linux

[Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>]

On 05/03/17 17:38, Lars Schneider wrote:
>> On 02 Mar 2017, at 16:17, Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>> On 02/03/17 11:24, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2 Mar 2017, Lars Schneider wrote:
>>>
>> [snip]
>>>> One thing that still bugs me: In the Linux32 environment prove adds the
>>>> CPU times to every test run: ( 0.02 usr  0.00 sys +  0.00 cusr  0.00
>>>> csys ...  Has anyone an idea why that happens and how we can disable it?
>>>
>>> I have no idea.
>>
>> I have no idea either, but it is not unique to this 32bit Linux, but
>> rather the version of prove. For example, I am seeing this on Linux
>> Mint 18.1 (64bit _and_ 32bit), whereas Linux Mint 17.x did not do
>> this. (They used different Ubuntu LTS releases).
>>
>> [Mint 18.1 'prove --version' says: TAP::Harness v3.35 and Perl v5.22.1]
> 
> I think I found it. It was introduced in TAP::Harness v3.34:
> https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/Test-Harness/commit/66cbf6355928b4828db517a99f1099b7fed35e90
> 
> ... and it is enabled with the "--timer" switch.

Yep, that looks like it.

When I updated to Mint 18, this broke a perl script of mine, so I had
a quick look to see what I could do to suppress it. The man page seemed
to imply that you could replace the output formatter, but that didn't
take me too far (search CPAN for TAP::Parser::Formatter: ;-) ). I suppose
you could replace Tap::Formatter::Base, or some such, but I didn't need
to go that far - I simply changed a couple of regex-es to ignore the
excess output! :-P

Do you really need to suppress that timing information or, like me, can
you simply ignore it?

ATB,
Ramsay Jones