Re: Perl test suite

Hi Sunil,

On 11/28/2011 07:55 AM, Sunil Bojanapally wrote:
> I am trying to port Perl-5.10.0 to my target NetBSD system.
> How do i know that Perl has successfully ported ?
> Is their any Perl test suite to check that ?

indeed, there is a very big test suite that ships with perl. It is 
probably best if you grab a copy of the current development version of 
perl instead of trying to port an outdated version.

Have a look at

http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git

where (if you're not familiar with git) you can download tarballs of 
various versions and snapshots of perl.

But ideally, you do this:

git clone git://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git
cd perl
./Configure (...possibly some options...)
make
make test

If you also want to try the most recent stable version, after the above, 
you can do: (in the perl repository directory)

git clean -dxf (cleans up build byproducts)
git checkout v5.14.2
./Configure
make
make test

Best regards,
Steffen

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