Build failures on exotic architectures

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

In doing some research on Debian bug #499740 [0], I have discovered that
the culprit may be in these tests:

ext/pperl/splashfast/t/02_use.t
ext/pperl/splashfast/t/03_new.t
ext/pperl/splashfast/t/04_app.t

The related build log [1], shows only those three test failing, while
the actual compilation completes in its entirety with no problems.  The
common trait with these tests is the appearance of these statements:

ext/pperl/splashfast/t/02_use.t:15:app_timeout( 500 );
ext/pperl/splashfast/t/03_new.t:21:app_timeout( 500 );
ext/pperl/splashfast/t/04_app.t:26:  $timer->Start( 500, 1 );

Now, other places in the code contain "$timer->Start( 500, 1 );", some
with the same 500, others with a larger number and others still with a
smaller number.  I am not certain what they may have in common, or why
it may be causing a problem.  This causes failures on s390, powerpc,
mipsel, alpha, mips, hppa, and arm.  Other architectures, like amd64,
ia64, i386, armel, and sparc, seem do OK with all of the tests.

Any insight that anyone can provide into this would be much appreciated.

Regards,

-Roberto

[0] http://bugs.debian.org/499740
[1] http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=libwx-perl&ver=0.89-1&arch=s390&stamp=1229221170&file=log

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
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