Re: ken broke 5.6.2 in may 2008 -- t/ext.t t/xs.t

On Sep 13, 2008, at 19:04, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

>>   $ perlv562 Build.PL
>>
>>   $ ./Build test --test-files t/ext.t t/xs.t
>>   t/ext......1/187
>>   #     Failed test (t/ext.t at line 148)
>>   #     Structures begin differing at:
>>   #          $got->[0] = Does not exist
>>   #     $expected->[0] = 'one
>>   #     two'
>
> If nobody wants to fix it, I'll happily bump the required perl  
> version,
> but I'm just the guy in shipping.

This appears to be a difference between the implementation of  
Text::ParseWords::shellwords() in 5.6 vs in 5.10 (and presumably 5.8).  
I think we should just skip that particular test on 5.6. Patch attached.

Best,

David

Index: t/ext.t
===================================================================
--- t/ext.t	(revision 11789)
+++ t/ext.t	(working copy)
@@ -145,5 +145,8 @@
   is( 0 + grep( !defined(), @result ), # all defined
       0,
       "'$string' result all defined" );
-  is_deeply(\@result, $expected);
+  SKIP: {
+      skip 'Text::ParseWords::shellwords() is finicky in 5.6', 1 if $] < 5.008;
+      is_deeply(\@result, $expected);
+  };
 }