Re: The problem of test.pl

2001-09-24 Thread Tim Jenness
On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Alter h2xs and ExtUtils::ModuleMaker to make the stub test be t/Foo.t > instead of test.pl. > I believe h2xs does this already in bleadperl. -- Tim Jenness JAC software http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj

The problem of test.pl

2001-09-23 Thread Michael G Schwern
Most people don't realize this, but test.pl doesn't really work outside the core. MakeMaker runs module tests in t/*.t are run through Test::Harness. test.pl is *not*. As a result, there is no parsing of the output. The only way "make test" can fail is if test.pl exits abnormally. A 'not ok' wi