Re: Extracting/Running Test Suite on existing perl

[email protected] (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes)
Newsgroups perl.unicode,perl.mvs,perl.perl5.porters
Organization bs"d
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 07:23:01PM +0530, Sastry wrote:
> Hi
> I have installed the binary version of perl-5.8.7 on z/OS.
> Now I would like to separately run the test suite that comes with the
> source package of perl and run against the installed version of perl.
> Is there a means by which this can be done?

IIRC Ilya Zakharevich posted about doing this a while ago,
though I don't recall how far he got.

It's not easy.  Changing what @INC is set to in t/TestInit.pm
is a start, but many tests also set @INC at the beginning.
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