On Sun, 09 Aug 2009, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 04:54:53AM +1000, Sisyphus wrote: > > > I haven't yet tracked down the cause of the problem (which seems to > > arise *only* when I build a "versioned" perl). Can someone here > > suggest a likely place to find the cause ? I've reported the issue before: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2009/07/msg148236.html Since I got exactly 0 feedback I filed a Test-Harness bug here: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=47890 The bug report tracks down the code change responsible for this behavior and suggests that it be reverted. > Not directly, but what happens if you take a clean build of 5.10.0, > and then install from CPAN the same version of Test::Harness as > 5.10.1-RC1 ships with? > > That way, at least you can determine whether the problem is something > in the core binary, or the Test::Harness module. It is an intentional change in Test-Harness 3.0 (or at least a side- effect of an intentional change). I would prefer to see this change reverted because I don't think it is actually useful, but nobody else seemed to care (so far). Cheers, -Jan