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Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
- From: Scott Bolte <listS+cygwin at niss dot com>
- To: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, Michael G Schwern <schwern at pobox 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
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:43:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: [perl-5.8.7] Perl regression tests fail when lib directory is present
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:39:41 +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> Indeed, I see no unsetenv() in the perl sources.
>
> Since it seems that the problem is independent of TH the problem should
> be located in perl itself. I'll try with a recent devel version to see
> if it fails here too. Scott, have you tried te above script with other
> (older) versions of Cygwin perl too? Since TH works with perl-5.8.6 I
> suspect some of the changes integrated into maint perl to be problematic
> for Cygwin, however it may also be an older bug in Cygwin perl.
Gerrit,
The problem was definitely exposed by Test::Harness. Both
perl-5.8.6 and perl-5.8.7 worked fine with the older TH
module, and both failed with the newer TH module. I did not
try even older perl versions with either TH or my test case.
The simplest explanation is the perl behavior on cygwin has
been consistently wrong for quite some time, but was never
exposed in such a public way before.
Scott
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