Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
From: Michael G Schwern <[email-masked]>
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]>
Cc: Andrew Ho <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 14:17:50 -0700

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:39:05PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >Hmm.  That's very strange.  Particularly the oscilating nature.  The reason
> >its failing only when in lib/ is because '.' is in @INC so it can find
> >the module.  If you run the tests under taint mode (which removes the .)
> >they should fail.
> 
> Simply running the command with -t, like so:
> /usr/bin/perl.exe -t "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 
> 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> 
> or is this not the right way to activate taint mode?

Full on taint mode is -T and -t is just warnings.  Anyhow, it serves the
purpose.

> $ /usr/bin/perl.exe -t "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 
> 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> [...]
> t/test5....Insecure dependency in `` while running with -t switch at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/Test/Harness/Straps.pm line 478.

Oh yeah, TH isn't taint safe.  Nevermind.

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