On Wednesday, June 04, 2003, at 05:20PM, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:44:16PM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> At 10:48 PM -0700 6/2/03, Michael G Schwern wrote: >> >> >Since every test does: chdir($Is_VMS ? 'BFD_TEST_ROOT:[t]' : 't'); if >> >you'd change the BFD_TEST_ROOT definition in 00setup_dummy.t to already be >> >in t/ then we can squeeze out that last directory. I can't do it since >> >I don't really understand the bfdtesttmp.com code. >> >> The reason that doesn't work (at least by itself) has now come back >> to me. If I do that the tests end up looking for their libraries in >> ../lib, but "up one level" is nonsense when you're already at the >> root. We've definitely been down this path before but never come up >> with a clean solution that didn't break something else. I'm >> contemplating evil abuse of PERL5LIB, among other things. > >Could we set up another logical root and use that instead of ../lib? I've been thinking of that, and we may even have tried something like that before, but it gets messy trying to add /bfd_lib_root to @INC in a BEGIN block only on VMS (where I guess "messy" just means I don't know how to do it).
