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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:16:40 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Michael G Schwern <schwern AT pobox DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is  present
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Hi Michael,


Michael G Schwern wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:57:17PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> 
>>we are on Cygwin: 1.5.18(0.132/4/2) 2005-07-02 20:30, perl is the latest
>>stable release: This is perl, v5.8.7 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int
>>
>>We have a problem building modules, i.e. make test fails if a .pm file
>>in the source package is located below the root in a subdirectory called
>>'lib'.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> I'm going to guess somethign wacky is going on inside Test::Harness.  What
> version is being used?

The dafault Test::Harness which is included with perl-5.8.7:
$ perl -e 'use Test::Harness; print "$Test::Harness::VERSION\n";'
2.48



Gerrit
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