On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 03:23PM, IvorW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>One of the problems with troubleshooting perl modules on VMS is the
>very non-standard make facility of MMS/MMK. In particular, it's hard to
>pass in extra qualifiers to mmk test like TEST_VERBOSE=1, or to
>mmk testdb like TEST_FILE=t/00fred.t
What's hard about
$ MMK/MACRO=TEST_VERBOSE=1
or
$ MMS/MACRO=("TEST_VERBOSE"=1,"TEST_FILE"="t/00fred.t")
?
>The more recent versions of Test::Harness include a script called prove
>which enables you to run the equivalent of "make test" for individual scripts.
>I have found this a boon for developing modules on Unix.
>
>This would be really handy for VMS too. Sadly, some of the command line
>options don't seem to work (it also fails tests on VMS).
Getting more tools to work is always a good thing. What specific problems do you see,
what tests fail, etc.?
