On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 06:25 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:23:26PM +1000, Ken Williams wrote: >> I admit that I was a little surprised to see 'lib' stuff here >> and not 'blib' stuff. Don't blibs get created when building >> modules in the core? > > Everything winds up in lib/ before the tests are run. All non-XS > modules > are never really "built", they're already in lib/. All XS modules are > built > and their results put into lib/ and then the tests are run. > > So, effectively, the core "installs" every modules into lib/ then runs > all > their tests. This is so module A's tests can find module B. Oh, one big lib/, not several different ones? So then why can't it be run with perl -Mblib=lib t/foo/bar.t ? I'm just trying to push the decision into a more appropriate place, though I guess in the end it's not such a big deal. -Ken
