On Thu 30 Oct 2003 13:22, Abe Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Op een wisselvallige herfstdag (Thursday 30 October 2003 10:07), schreef 
> H.Merijn Brand:
> 
> > I'd like to test the complete smoke suite with a single environment value
> > set
> >
> > On cygwin, for example try to see the influence of changing $CYGWIN, or
> > on *nix setting $UNIX95 and see if all still passes
> >
> > is there a guide to fit this in the conf, or do I just set it in the
> > calling .sh or do I set it in my current shell and call the smoke by hand,
> 
> Hmmm.. depends on how early in the process you want this.

*my* thought was to set it *after* perl build was completed, and *before* the
tests start, in order to see if what a porter ports would work in a users
(different) environment.

> It was my perception that F<Policy.sh> was just for this sort of thing, but if 

That's if you want to influence the configure/build process

> you feel that is too late in the process I suppose one could set this stuff 

Far too early

> from the configsmoke-generated jcl.
> 
> > or do you think it is a bad idea after all ...
> 
> No, I guess people will try to build perl in their own environment, which 
> might pretty well be completely different from ours. But pumpkings might 
> think different.
> 
> I believe that we need some sort of API to handle this from Test::Smoke *and* 
> make it report such information in a generic way.

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