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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:20:21 -0700
From: Michael G Schwern <schwern AT pobox DOT com>
To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit AT familiehaase DOT de>
Cc: Scott Bolte <listS+cygwin AT niss DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com,
   Andrew Ho <andrew AT tellme DOT com>, makemaker AT perl DOT org, perl5-porters AT perl DOT org,
   petdance AT cpan DOT org
Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
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On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:51:48PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Yep, the example with the delete( $ENV   ...) shows clearly that there
> is a problem with forked/spawned processes which should be resolved.
> 
> In the first place I would be glad if someone (petdance?) could fix TH
> for Cygwin so that it works to install modules (well, to run the test 
> suites) on Cygwin.
> 
> I wonder why I got no errors when running the testsuite during the build
> of perl-5.8.7, maybe some more tests are needed to cover this issue?

5.8.7 ships with Test::Harness 2.48 which doesn't have this code.

Otherwise, there appears to be no specific test of delete $ENV{...}.
There's something in t/op/local.t which dances around the issue.
There probably should be a t/op/env.t, I'm kind of surprised there isn't.


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Michael G Schwern     schwern AT pobox DOT com     http://www.pobox.com/~schwern
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