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On 08/21/2013 01:11 PM, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 11:01:27AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:26:27PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: >>> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:06:04PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: >> >>>> It's not perfect, but would it be enough to just skip this test if >>>> /usr/bin/man isn't present? See the attached patch. >>> >>> I think that that's the best solution. We found that it was quite hard to >>> actually write a reliable test, let alone a portable test. I think that it >>> doesn't matter if the test is skipped frequently, as long as it still runs >>> on some platforms. >>> >>>> Also, something that caught my eye: LC_MESSAGES is spelled wrongly >>>> in perl5db.t. This is most probably just cosmetic, but attaching >>>> a patch anyway. >>> >>> D'oh! >>> >>> It possibly does matter. :-) >>> It's certainly worth fixing. And I suspect worth backporting, in case it >>> matters. >> >> I've pushed both to smoke-me/nicholas/perl5db-man >> I don't think that there are going to be any problems, but Tony and I thought >> that at least twice before... > > Hi, > > this went into 5.18.1, but it's still not in blead. Is that intentional? > > (I can file a perlbug too if you like but it seems a bit late for that.) > I have now pushed it to blead as commit 0b2badd303822058883646ab6f807ec4c8b39206Thread Previous | Thread Next