On Saturday 29 April 2006 20:23, Fu, Elva wrote: > It seems I didn’t express my question very well:-), please let me clarify > it more detail:
No, I understood you. You have a binary distribution of Perl packaged by someone besides the official Perl release manager. The package provided by the official Perl release manager does include the tests, but whoever made the package you installed did not include them. It's possible to download the official source code corresponding to the version from which the packager made the binary distribution, then run those tests. If that's fine, it's not difficult. Otherwise, you may prefer to install Perl yourself in an alternate location. (Replacing the system installed version can affect certain other behaviors of the system in unpleasant ways.) If you do this, use the official distribution from source code which includes the tests. I don't know how much help anyone else on this list can be. To my knowledge, no one here is the person responsible for packaging the RPM you installed. Collectively, the Perl 5 porters and to some extent the members of Perl QA produced and maintain the test suite within the standard, source code distribution. If someone redistributes Perl under the terms of the license, he or she is free to include or disinclude the tests. Neither the porters nor the QA group has any control over this. -- c
