Is there any documentation on that? `perldoc -f system` only describes the different handling of "system LIST" vs "system PROGRAM LIST" on windows, not any differences between different types of quote characters.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:28 PM Serguei Trouchelle <s...@cpan.org> wrote: > > On 2019-02-25 05:11, David Cantrell wrote: > > > I don't need to use Andreas's analysis tool to figure out what the > > common factor is in these test failures :-) > > http://cpantesters.org/distro/T/Test-Differences.html > > > > But I don't have access to any Windows machines, or any knowledge of how > > to use any of the tools on that platform or how to install stuff. Does > > anything exist now like the project a few years ago where Microsoft > > donated some cloudy VMs for use by perl people that already had a > > sensible toolchain and stuff installed? > > > > I looked into the problem, the issue lies in calling system() with > double quotes. Double quotes on Win32 behave different from Unix-like > systems and should generally be avoided. This diff fixes the problem: > > 25,26c25,26 > < [ "\\N{U+2603}", "\\N{U+1F4A9}"], > < [reverse "\\N{U+2603}", "\\N{U+1F4A9}"] > --- > > [ qq{\\N{U+2603}}, qq{\\N{U+1F4A9}}], > > [reverse qq{\\N{U+2603}}, qq{\\N{U+1F4A9}}] > > > -- > S.T.
