On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 06:05:42PM +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > Comment out some debugging output in Math::BigInt, that > > > causes confusion in t/TEST when running Math/BigInt/t/bare_mbi.t. > > > > But this really is just a bug in the TEST script. I'd recommend a > > patch like this. The first chunk is just to make an overlong line > > shorter, the second chunk is the real fix. All tests pass on my linux. > > And even Tels' original test script passes all tests. > > Hmmm, I dunno. In general I would say tests should not produce extra > output unless they mean to fail. Or in other words, the test > harnesses should not be too forgiving. Or they may output using > some known "out of band" channel, like lines matching ^/#/.
I think I agree with Jarkko. Hence I ought to be attaching a patch for harness. But I am bad, because I am not. (I'm not sure where to do it, and I don't have the time left today to find out) Nicholas Clark
