Re: No . in @INC breaks CPAN

On 11/14/2016 02:45 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote:
>> In this case, adding '.' to the distribution's Makefile.PL made no
> difference.  I had to add "use lib ('.');" to Auxiliary.pm to enable it to
> locate 'eligible_chars', after which 'make test' PASSed.
>
>> Based on this example and several other failures, my hunch is that many
> of the failures which we'll see on CPAN are failures of *tests* rather than
> failures of the modules themselves.
>
> I would agree.  I'd also encourage authors to not add "use lib '.';" to
> their tests to fix these issues, but rather move the test modules to t/lib
> and instead "use lib 't/lib'".
>
>

Well, now that you mention it ...

One of the other distros that failed when I was trying this out earlier 
today was Module-Runtime.  I submitted a patch for Zefram's review in 
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118768. In that patch, as 
well as in the patch to my own distro, I simply added '.'.  Feel free to 
kibitz in 118768.

jimk