Re: Inline tests fail with "HARNESS_OPTIONS=j9"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Oswald" <[email protected]>
To: "inline" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 6:07 AM
Subject: Inline tests fail with "HARNESS_OPTIONS=j9"


> This might seem obvious, but I stumble on it from time to time.  Inline's
> testing fails if the environment variable HARNESS_OPTIONS has "jn" set (n
> being number of simultaneous processes permitted).
>
> There seem to be fewer and fewer modules for which this is a problem.  I
> think that many compilers are not happy with being run in parallel, so
> probably the best way to handle it is to have our Makefile.PL set 'make
> test' to temporarily unset HARNESS_OPTIONS.  Does anyone have any idea how
> to do that?

I don't know how to do this with 'make test', but the test scripts 
themselves should be able to query and alter $ENV{HARNESS_OPTIONS}.
I think that would achieve the desired result, so long as any such fiddling 
is done in a BEGIN{} block at the very start of the script.

Cheers,
Rob