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Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
- From: Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox dot com>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- Cc: Scott Bolte <listS+cygwin at niss dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com, Andrew Ho <andrew at tellme dot com>, makemaker at perl dot org, perl5-porters at perl dot org, petdance at cpan dot org
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:20:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
- References: <200507261243.j6QCheAN076020@crag.niss.com> <42E67834.50206@familiehaase.de>
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:51:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Yep, the example with the delete( $ENV ...) shows clearly that there
> is a problem with forked/spawned processes which should be resolved.
>
> In the first place I would be glad if someone (petdance?) could fix TH
> for Cygwin so that it works to install modules (well, to run the test
> suites) on Cygwin.
>
> I wonder why I got no errors when running the testsuite during the build
> of perl-5.8.7, maybe some more tests are needed to cover this issue?
5.8.7 ships with Test::Harness 2.48 which doesn't have this code.
Otherwise, there appears to be no specific test of delete $ENV{...}.
There's something in t/op/local.t which dances around the issue.
There probably should be a t/op/env.t, I'm kind of surprised there isn't.
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Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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