[rt.cpan.org #96291] t/08taint.t fails on perl 5.20.0

Fri Jun 06 21:34:28 2014: Request 96291 was acted upon.
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     Subject: t/08taint.t fails on perl 5.20.0
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 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96291 >


Confirmation from #perl on irc.perl.org - it's a deliberate change in perl 5.20.0. A quick fix would be either to explicitly set $ENV{PATH} to '/bin:/usr/bin', or skip the test for 5.20.0.

The rationale is that taint mode is rarely used anymore. The following suggestion was made:

<@mst> maybe the best way to fix the test would be to try /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin
<@mst> and see if the necessary binaries are there
<@mst> and if yes, you can run the test
<@mst> and if no, skip all
<@mst> but still run the test in cases where we can do

I hoped there would be a sensible value available in %Config, but there isn't.