Fw: Re: [PATCH 5.8.2 @21574] make tests relocatable

Food for thought ...

Forwarded by "H.Merijn Brand" <[email protected]>
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 From:    Ilya Zakharevich <[email protected]>
 To:      Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[email protected]>
 Cc:      Mailing list Perl5 <[email protected]>
 Date:    Fri, 7 Nov 2003 00:14:26 -0800
 Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.8.2 @21574] make tests relocatable
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On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:52:26PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> I played a bit with it ; very interesting.

I hope this makes it into 5.8.2, so finally, we will be able to test
binary distributions...

Maybe, while you are playing, you can address two more issues:

  a) no Perl distribution should go out with

	make minitest

     failing.  [This creates problems when miniperl is build wrong,
     but the test suite for miniperl returns some noise, or would not
     run at all.]

  b)    cd t; mv perl perl-hidden; PERL=`pwd`/perl-hidden ./pert-hidden TEST

     should succeed (the last time I checked, some tests were not
     paying attension to $PERL).

Yours,
Ilya

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