In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/06aa495b2e26cd6963648651410909a6682df5b9?hp=746c0b35373e0e9e2bb224eafef296470ec9da24>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit 06aa495b2e26cd6963648651410909a6682df5b9 Author: David Mitchell <[email protected]> Date: Tue Aug 11 23:09:01 2009 +0100 INSTALL: mention that env vars can affect tests ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: INSTALL | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 89707cf..308ffff 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1401,6 +1401,18 @@ The latter is especially useful if you see something like this at Perl startup. +=item other environment variables + +Configure does not check for environment variables that can sometimes +have a major influence on how perl is built or tested. For example, +OBJECT_MODE on AIX determines the way the compiler and linker deal with +their objects, but this is a variable that only influences build-time +behaviour, and should not affect the perl scripts that are eventually +executed by the perl binary. Other variables, like PERL_UNICODE, +PERL5LIB, and PERL5OPTS will influence the behaviour of the test suite. +So if you are getting strange test failures, you may want to try +retesting with the various PERL variables unset. + =item varargs If you get varargs problems with gcc, be sure that gcc is installed -- Perl5 Master Repository
