[perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present

Gerrit P. Haase gerrit@familiehaase.de
Tue Jul 26 18:47:00 GMT 2005


Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 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.


It fails to run the tests from the command line with the default
installation of perl-5.8.7 for Cygwin?


> 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.


Gerrit
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