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On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:48:26 -0400, Jesse Vincent <jesse@fsck.com> wrote: > On Wed 29.Jul'09 at 22:26:15 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:52:24 -0400, "Jerry D. Hedden" > > <jdhedden@cpan.org> wrote: > > > > > The attached patch adds a test to t/lib/manifest.t to check that the > > > MANIFEST file is properly sorted. (And guess what? It isn't.) > > > > Why rely on external sort, where perl has a more reliable sort itself? > > Well, we _are_ using the external sort to do the sorting, rather than > Perl's built sort. That is what I meant. Why? There have been several occasions in the past few month where I fell back to perl's sort instead of system sort because - even with a forced LC_ALL and LANG - system sort gave me different results on different machines where perl's sort works `as expected' (TM) > I've been in the process of working over the releng docs. I saw ++ to you! > Porting/manicheck should definitely be absorbed into this testfile. > > It might be worth having the failure mode telling the user to run > "make manisort" to actually fix the problem, too. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/Thread Previous | Thread Next