Peter Prymmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
> Charles Lane wrote:
>
>> If you look for VMSPIPE and can't find it at all, what do you do?
>> You can't run system(), you can't do piped i/o. I'd say that a -F-
>> is an appropriate response to that kind of failure, maybe a *bit*
>> on the harsh side.
>
> There are plenty of things I can do with perl with out system or piped
> I/O. perl -e "print ""Hello World\n"";" plus oodles of regular filehandle
> I/O examples come readily to mind. In fact I'd go so far as to assert
> that most of what I use perl for does not entail piped I/O or system() stuff.
The error-throwing suggested was only in response to a system() or
piped i/o request that couldn't be satisfied because of lacking PERL_ROOT.
But your point is well taken; we may *have* to be able to have a viable
Perl without PERL_ROOT, ugly though it might be.
And if the test suite shouldn't depend on PERL_ROOT being defined, then
we should make sure it *isn't* defined (or defined to something non-useful)
when running the test suite. That's easy enough to do, I'll give it a
shot.
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