Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:20:21 -0700 From: Michael G Schwern To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Cc: Scott Bolte , cygwin@cygwin.com, Andrew Ho , makemaker@perl.org, perl5-porters@perl.org, petdance@cpan.org Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present Message-ID: <20050726182021.GC20886@windhund.schwern.org> References: <200507261243.j6QCheAN076020@crag.niss.com> <42E67834.50206@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E67834.50206@familiehaase.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i 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. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Phillip K. Dick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/