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Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> It is crucial that an individual test can be run without the
> intervention of TEST:
>
> ./perl t/op/stat.t
>
> to provide as small "Perl-related environment" as possible. E.g.,
> consider line-ending bugs; if
>
> ./perl t/TEST op/stat.t
>
> fails, I do not know whether I should debug t/TEST, or t/op/stat.t.
In the ./perl case you already have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to get it to work
if you build with libperl.so, setting PERL5LIB in the environment is hardly
a great burden. The problem with the existing "BEGIN { ... }" junk is that
it BREAKS any attempt to use PERL5LIB as it forcibly overwrites @INC, so
you can't run the tests from anywhere other than $SRC/t. Adding yet another
environment variable (PERLTEST_KEEP_INC) seems to be overly complicated whe
we could just rip out all the BEGIN blocks, get TEST to set PERL5LIB
properly and simplify the whole mess.
--
Alan Burlison
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