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On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:56:05AM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:14:26AM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> > b) cd t; mv perl perl-hidden; PERL=`pwd`/perl-hidden ./pert-hidden TEST
> >
> > should succeed (the last time I checked, some tests were not
> > paying attension to $PERL).
>
> It looks like TEST honors $ENV{PERL}. Individual tests shouldn't have to
> know about $ENV{PERL}. $^X should work, no?
Given that it is not universally reliable, it should not be used in
individual tests. Hmm, when running from a fixed directory, it may
work nevertheless. Anyway, as the above experiment shows (or at least
showed the first time I reported this problem), things can be improved.
Hope this helps,
Ilya
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