> 31028 perl -i fails on Win32 unless a backup string is
> provided for -i option
Should that really be a bug? You can't delete open files on Win32 so what is
perl supposed to do?
Yves
> http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk
> or
> svn://svn.schwern.org/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk
> or
> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.54.tar.gz
> or
> a CPAN near you.
Should the t/fork.t tests should still be skipped on Win32? Win32 Perl has
been able to fork since at lea
> Yves Orton wrote:
>
> >>http://svn.schwern.org/svn/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk
> >>or
> >>svn://svn.schwern.org/CPAN/Test-Simple/trunk
> >>or
> >>http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/src/Test-Simple-0.54.tar.gz
> >>or
> >>a CPAN near you.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Should the t/fork.t tests should still be skipped on
> Not quite. I'm saying: "Unless you need fork you're probably
> better off using a perl without PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS" [on Win32,
> obviously]. There's no problem with having ithreads enabled;
> it's PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS that requires perl's malloc to be disabled.
Got it. Ok, sorry to be so thick.
> Not Test::More's MANIFEST.SKIP. The system's default MANIFEST.SKIP.
> ExtUtils::MANIFEST.SKIP.
>
> Run "perldoc -m ExtUtils::MANIFEST.SKIP" and see if it looks like either
of
> the urls above.
Ah, sorry. I didnt understand. Im just curious if i alter this file this
will affect all "make dist"
Michael G Schwern wrote on 16 December 2004 23:06
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:59:00PM -0000, Orton, Yves wrote:
> > Ah, sorry. I didnt understand. Im just curious if i alter
> this file this
> > will affect all "make dist" commands?
>
> Only if that module
> Your patch needs to account for PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS too like
> t/op/fork.t does, as Schwern just pointed out.
Ok, ill look into that test to see how it works.
> I should have mentioned that rather than just "ithreads" in my mail.
> PERL_IMPLCIT_SYS is, in fact, also the reason that I don't bu
> Perhaps you've got a damaged default MANIFEST.SKIP. Check what
> "perldoc -m ExtUtils::MANIFEST.SKIP" looks like. It should
> look like this.
>
>
http://search.cpan.org/src/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.24/lib/ExtUtils/MAN
IFEST.SKIP
>
> Not like this.
> http://search.cpan.org/src/MSCHWERN/E
