Scott Bolte wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:39:41 +0200, "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
Indeed, I see no unsetenv() in the perl sources.
Since it seems that the problem is independent of TH the problem should
be located in perl itself. I'll try with a recent devel version to see
if it fails here too. Scott, have you tried te above script with other
(older) versions of Cygwin perl too? Since TH works with perl-5.8.6 I
suspect some of the changes integrated into maint perl to be problematic
for Cygwin, however it may also be an older bug in Cygwin perl.
Gerrit,
The problem was definitely exposed by Test::Harness. Both
perl-5.8.6 and perl-5.8.7 worked fine with the older TH
module, and both failed with the newer TH module. I did not
try even older perl versions with either TH or my test case.
The simplest explanation is the perl behavior on cygwin has
been consistently wrong for quite some time, but was never
exposed in such a public way before.
Scott
Yep, the example with the delete( $ENV ...) shows clearly that there
is a problem with forked/spawned processes which should be resolved.
In the first place I would be glad if someone (petdance?) could fix TH
for Cygwin so that it works to install modules (well, to run the test
suites) on Cygwin.
I wonder why I got no errors when running the testsuite during the build
of perl-5.8.7, maybe some more tests are needed to cover this issue?
Gerrit
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